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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following, according to Corbett, best characterizes a tiger?
(a) Large hearted gentleman with boundless courage.
(b) Aggressive and cruel.
(c) Instinctual and natural.
(d) Monarch of the forests.

2. Whose aid does Corbett unsuccessfully enlist to find the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) A band of monkeys.
(b) A small herd of water buffalo.
(c) The other big game hunters after him.
(d) All of his men.

3. Where does the wounded leopard go with Corbett and Robin tracking close behind?
(a) Up a tree.
(b) Into a large cluster of rocks.
(c) Into a large lantana bush.
(d) Into a dense, nearly impassable part of the forest.

4. What does Corbett find is the cause of the Champawat tigress's need to hunt people?
(a) Congenital deformity.
(b) An old hip injury.
(c) Age and arthritis.
(d) Broken teeth from being shot.

5. Which of the following is NOT a natural circumstance which may incite any tiger to kill a human?
(a) A tiger on a fresh kill.
(b) A wounded tiger.
(c) A tigress with small cubs.
(d) A person entering the tiger's territory.

6. In what state does Corbett find the people of Pali when he arrives?
(a) Loading up their belongings to leave.
(b) Furiously pounding the bush to drive the tiger away.
(c) In abject terror and locked in their homes.
(d) In a town meeting deciding what to do about the tiger.

7. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?
(a) Condition of teeth.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Speed.
(d) Condition of claws.

8. What is Robin's pedigree?
(a) Imported English hound.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A well known and respected line of working dogs.
(d) Son of a legendary Indian hunting dog.

9. What establishes the fact that the first of the Chowgrarh tigers Corbett kills is also a man-eater?
(a) Clothes found in the stomach of the tiger.
(b) That a man and wife had been killed simultaneously.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Reports from a neighboring region where the younger tiger had killed people.

10. What tale about himself does Corbett refute?
(a) That he has killed a tiger bare handed.
(b) That on this and other occasions he dressed as a woman to attract the man-eater and killed it with sickle.
(c) That he has killed hundreds of man-eaters.
(d) That he is convinced he is to die killed by a tiger.

11. What does Corbett worry about as he re-approaches the wounded leopard?
(a) That the leopard may have moved.
(b) That the leopard may be suffering greatly.
(c) That someone else had come and killed and taken the leopard.
(d) That so many gunshots would ruin the skin.

12. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that Corbett says worked to his advantage when he finally came face to face with the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) Nightjar eggs in his left hand.
(b) That he is carrying a very light rifle.
(c) His sudden surge of adrenaline and fast reflexes.
(d) The tiger being a man-eater.

13. Who does Corbett go fetch to help him retrieve the body of the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) The owner of the water fuffalo.
(b) The other big game hunters.
(c) His sister and a party of twenty men.
(d) None of the above

14. Where does Corbett spend his first night in pursuit of the Chowgrarh tiger?
(a) In the village square comforting the locals.
(b) In a luxury tourist bungalow.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Up a tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reputation does Corbett admit to having earned?

2. When does Robin disappear?

3. What does Corbett says tigers do not know about people?

4. What do Corbett and Robin do when the leopard is so inaccessible?

5. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?

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