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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens that makes Corbett know he's picked a winner in Robin?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Robin joins a group of hunting dogs that cornered a leopard.
(c) Robin growls when anybody approaches Corbett.
(d) Robin hangs onto a wounded peafowl as it runs dragging him along.

3. What does the Bachelor of Powalgarh do after Corbett fires his first shot at him?
(a) Run away.
(b) Try to attack Corbett.
(c) Fall over and lie still.
(d) Rip a tree to shreds.

4. Whose home does Corbett see when traveling from town to town in pursuit of the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) An American hunter.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The only survivor of a Chowarh tiger attack.
(d) The first victim of the Chowgarh tiger, an out of town goat herd.

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

6. Why do the Vivians miss their opportunity to kill the man-eater of Chowgarh?
(a) In the murky light they mistake it for a bear.
(b) They miss the shot.
(c) The gun jams and does not fire.
(d) The man-eater senses their presence and stays hidden.

7. What does Corbett says tigers do not know about people?
(a) That we fight to preserve every one of our species.
(b) That it is technology, and not nature, that makes us strong.
(c) That we stalk them too.
(d) That we have no sense of smell.

8. What does Corbett learn about the Chowgrarh tiger at the first village?
(a) It is accompanied by a mate.
(b) It is a mother caring for a young cub.
(c) It is accompanied by a leopard.
(d) It is accompanied by a full grown cub.

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

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

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

12. What part of the Bachelor of Powalgarh does Corbett find after shooting him?
(a) A toe.
(b) A small piece of his skull.
(c) A tooth.
(d) A strip of skin.

13. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?
(a) After they have been shot at by hunters.
(b) When they are compelled to through stress of circumstance.
(c) When people start to work in their territory.
(d) When their diet is low in salt.

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

15. Why does Corbett ask that the government rewards for the Champawat Man-eater be cancelled?
(a) He's afraid it will cause people to try and "make" man-eaters to be killed for reward.
(b) He knows India can't afford it.
(c) He feels that people would come to disrespect tigers.
(d) He does not want to be classified as a reward hunter or risk being shot by other hunters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

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

3. What is a popular belief about man-eating tigers that Corbett claims is untrue?

4. What conclusion does Corbett draw from differences between man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?

5. Where does Corbett spend his first night in pursuit of the Chowgrarh tiger?

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