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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What act of heroism does a young woman do when the tigress carries off her sister?
(a) She tries to hang onto the tiger as it leaves with its prey.
(b) She grabs her sister's baby from the hands of the woman as she is drug off.
(c) She clubs the tiger with a branch.
(d) She runs after the tiger for a hundred yards yelling at it to let her sister go and take her instead.

2. What does Corbett find when he goes to investigate a report of a tiger killing a cow in a village near to Champawat?
(a) Indication it was one of the man-eater tigress's cubs.
(b) Evidence that it was the man-eater tigress.
(c) A cow killed by a leopard.
(d) No information that could explain what happened.

3. What does Corbett say plays an important part in the sport of hunting man-eaters?
(a) Monkeys and luck.
(b) The wind and a good hunting dog.
(c) The other beings of the forest and the wind.
(d) All of the above.

4. What does Corbett decide to do before following the blood trail from the leopard?
(a) Clean his rifle.
(b) Tie Robin to a tree.
(c) Make a plan with the other men.
(d) Listen to the jungle sounds to see what he could tell about the leopard.

5. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?
(a) She arrives a man-eater from Nepal after killing two hundred people there.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A hunter from Champawat shot her in the hip.
(d) She is old and was driven out of her territory by a younger tiger.

6. Why does Corbett decide to go home after wounding the leopard?
(a) He thinks the leopard would die shortly.
(b) He needs to get Robin.
(c) It is getting close to dark.
(d) He needs more men.

7. Why does the little boy Corbett remembers not fear tigers when he sleeps in the woods?
(a) He had a charm put on him as a baby to thwart tigers.
(b) He knows tigers do not hurt people if they are left alone.
(c) He was raised by a tigress.
(d) He knows he is not in a tiger's territory.

8. How many people does the tigress of Champawat kill in all?
(a) Forty two.
(b) Eight.
(c) Four hundred and thirty six.
(d) Over a thousand.

9. Who was Robin amongst the litter?
(a) The only one left.
(b) The largest and most aggressive.
(c) The only one with no white on him.
(d) The smallest and thinnest.

10. It most cases, which of the following best characterizes the tiger's change from animal to human flesh?
(a) Rancorous.
(b) Accidental.
(c) Instinctual.
(d) Defensive.

11. What did the tigress of Muktesar do with the first person she killed?
(a) Devoured it.
(b) Left it.
(c) Took it to her cubs.
(d) Ate a few bites.

12. What happens to the girl the Chowgarh man-eater leaves wounded?
(a) She is left in the square where the tiger kills her that night.
(b) She heals.
(c) She dies minutes later.
(d) She dies weeks later of infection.

13. What nerve does Robin have that he is unable to control?
(a) The one on that makes the hair on the back of his leg stand up.
(b) Salivating.
(c) The twitching of his left ear.
(d) None of the above.

14. Where does Corbett wait for the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Wedged in between two rocks.
(c) Lying down in the open.
(d) In a tree.

15. What does Corbet wedge into his door to get ventilation but keep the tiger out?
(a) Thorn bushes.
(b) His saddle and gun.
(c) Chairs.
(d) A weaving loom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the length of the Bachelor of Powalgarh measured by Corbett and his sister compare to the estimates of others who had seen him years before?

2. Where is the last chance Corbett has to get a shot at the man-eater of Chowgarh on his first visit?

3. What does Corbett say about assuming a tiger is a man-eater?

4. What part of the Bachelor of Powalgarh does Corbett find after shooting him?

5. Whose home does Corbett see when traveling from town to town in pursuit of the Chowgarh man-eater?

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