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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?
(a) Poison bait.
(b) A beat to drive her down a narrow gorge.
(c) Snare traps.
(d) Forest fire.

2. How does Corbet spend the first night in Pali?
(a) Helping the townspeople search for the tiger.
(b) Barricaded in a house with everyone else.
(c) Trying to re-assure the villagers.
(d) Outside alone watching the road while his men were safe in a room.

3. What do Corbett and Robin do when the leopard is so inaccessible?
(a) Shoot where the leopard is likely to be in hopes of hitting it or driving it out.
(b) Climb a nearby tree and out wait the leopard.
(c) Go home and return the next day.
(d) Have a group of men beat the leopard out for them.

4. 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 was raised by a tigress.
(c) He knows he is not in a tiger's territory.
(d) He knows tigers do not hurt people if they are left alone.

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

6. What does Corbett say he has noted about the coats of man-eaters?
(a) The tigers often have bald spots.
(b) They have a tendency to be mangy.
(c) They smell.
(d) They have all been remarkably fine.

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

8. 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) She is old and was driven out of her territory by a younger tiger.
(c) None of the above.
(d) A hunter from Champawat shot her in the hip.

9. Where is the last chance Corbett has to get a shot at the man-eater of Chowgarh on his first visit?
(a) When the tiger circles the village he is in.
(b) When he watches the place the tiger left her last victim.
(c) From a ridge the night before his departure.
(d) At a watering hole on his way out of town.

10. 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.

11. When does Robin disappear?
(a) When all the other dogs swarm the leopard.
(b) When all the men open fire.
(c) When the leopard swats him with a paw.
(d) When they can hear the leopard charging at them but can't see it.

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

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

14. What had killed the cow that Corbett investigates when looking for the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) A young tiger looking for territory.
(b) A bear.
(c) The Chowgarh man-eater.
(d) A fine male leopard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Corbett wait for the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

2. What do the men from Champawat report having heard and seen?

3. Whose aid does Corbett unsuccessfully enlist to find the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh?

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

5. What story does Corbett tell of Robin?

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