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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Corbett say about the bungalow he stayed in while in Champawat?
(a) It was the only safe place for miles.
(b) That there is another story "beyond the laws of nature" to tell of it.
(c) It was perfectly situated to see the valley below.
(d) It was so uncomfortable he considered spending the night in the forest.

2. What are the Chowgarh tigers doing when Corbett first sees them?
(a) Stalking a young girl.
(b) Wrestling together.
(c) Fighting over part of a kill.
(d) Sleeping in the sunshine.

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

4. What does Corbett deduce from the two wounded women that returned home after being attacked by the Chowgarh tiger?
(a) The tiger was attacking for vengeance, not hunger.
(b) The tiger was wounded.
(c) The other tiger was the experienced man-eater.
(d) The tiger had depended on the cub to make the kills.

5. What other animal does Corbett almost kill while hunting for the Chowgarh tigers?
(a) A leopard that had killed people in another area.
(b) A ghooral that had hurt a little girl.
(c) A young tiger that was passing through.
(d) An old leopard that was killing cattle.

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

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

8. How does Corbett learn of the location of the Bachelor of Powalgarh when he starts to pursue him?
(a) He comes across him accidentally in the forest.
(b) From a dak runner passing his house that saw pugmarks.
(c) He sees the pugmarks when out walking Robin.
(d) From other big game hunters who failed to shoot him.

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

10. What does Corbett learn from the Chital?
(a) The wounded leopard was sighted miles from the spot.
(b) A second leopard showed up.
(c) The leopard is alive and moving.
(d) The leopard is near death.

11. Who comes to visit Corbett as soon as he arrives on the scene to hunt the Chowgarh tigers?
(a) Two other large game hunters.
(b) The mayor of the township.
(c) The grandmother of the latest victim.
(d) A spirit man protecting the tiger.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people does the tigress of Champawat kill in all?

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

4. What does Corbett decide to do before following the blood trail from the leopard?

5. What tale about himself does Corbett refute?

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