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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a popular belief about man-eating tigers that Corbett claims is untrue?
(a) That they prefer to attack a person from the front.
(b) That they only attack at night.
(c) None of the above.
(d) That they do not eat the head, hands, and feet of human victims.

5. 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.

6. What happens while Corbett is writing the story about Robin?
(a) Robin's puppies are born.
(b) Robin begs and begs to go out hunting.
(c) Robin dies.
(d) Corbett finds some old pictures of Robin.

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

8. 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?
(a) It is slightly more.
(b) It is slightly less.
(c) It is the same.
(d) It is much, much, more.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. What does Corbett decide to do when stalking the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Take only a light manueverable rifle.
(b) Ambush the tiger at a water hole.
(c) Dress as woman working in the field.
(d) Lure the tiger to him.

14. 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) From other big game hunters who failed to shoot him.
(c) He comes across him accidentally in the forest.
(d) He sees the pugmarks when out walking Robin.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Corbett say about the bungalow he stayed in while in Champawat?

3. What does Corbett say about the cubs of man-eaters?

4. When Robin backs away from the clerodendron bush, what does Corbett know this means?

5. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?

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