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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Corbett claim to enjoy doing?
(a) Scaring the locals.
(b) Watching young tigers hunt.
(c) Stalking predators.
(d) Sitting up over a kill.

2. When does the Kanda tiger stalk and prepare to hunt the men from the village?
(a) When they are bringing buffalo for Corbett to use as bait.
(b) When they sit to rest at the edge of the village.
(c) When they are cutting leaves from trees for fodder.
(d) When they are traveling out of town.

3. What is the last technique that Corbett uses to hunt the Thak man-eater?
(a) Poisoning her previous kill.
(b) Stalk her on a moonlit night.
(c) Sitting over a group of women working in the fields.
(d) Calling her in.

4. What does Corbett do when he desperately needs to cough while stalking the man-eater of Mohan?
(a) Make bird sounds to clear his throat.
(b) Leave the area.
(c) Chew some leaves that make his throat numb.
(d) None of the above.

5. Which of the following best characterizes how Corbett feels after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?
(a) Relief.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Utter sadness.
(d) Mixed emotions.

6. What do Corbett's men deduce when they see the tree Corbett had been in all night and the tiger blood?
(a) That Corbett was invincible.
(b) That Corbett had been killed.
(c) That the tiger was dead or dying.
(d) None of the above.

7. What does a friend bring to Corbett from the scene where the tiger was shot at night?
(a) A claw.
(b) Some hairs.
(c) A tooth.
(d) A bone shard.

8. What animal is the Pipal Pani tiger mistaken for and shot?
(a) A ghooral.
(b) A hyena.
(c) A man-eating tiger.
(d) A pig.

9. When does the father finally find the remains of his son?
(a) When he climbs a knoll to rest at dawn.
(b) When Corbett tracks the tiger.
(c) When he trips into the ravine.
(d) When the villagers return to work.

10. How does the Pipal Pani tiger get wounded in the shoulder?
(a) He isn't careful returning to a kill and gets shot.
(b) A fight with another tiger.
(c) A fight with a leopard.
(d) He gets shot when attacking cattle.

11. What do the forest guard and fisherman allegedly trip over while fleeing from the man-eater of Mohan?
(a) A snare trap for the tiger.
(b) A sleeping bear.
(c) Each other.
(d) A log.

12. What animals visit the scene of the missing dead chital?
(a) A tiger and a langur.
(b) A leopard and a boar.
(c) A boar and two chital.
(d) Two langurs and a leopard.

13. What reason did Corbett find for the tiger in Mohan to have become a man-eater?
(a) An old hip fracture.
(b) A bullet in his shoulder.
(c) Porcupine quills in his foreleg.
(d) Broken teeth.

14. Why is the killing of the Thak man-eater especially important to the Forest Department?
(a) Logging was about to start in the area.
(b) There had been complaints from important people.
(c) It was the most prolific killer in history.
(d) It was a densely populated area.

15. What does Corbett realize after reeling in sixty yards of the fishing line?
(a) The fish is still on the line.
(b) He did not use bait.
(c) None of the above.
(d) There is a branch wrapped in his line.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett deduce about the man-eater from the information the villagers give him?

2. What does Corbett see first on the trail as he is stalking the man-eater of Mohan?

3. What causes the tiger to flee from the kill area in the morning after Corbett's night tree vigil?

4. What does Corbett recommend great care be taken over when stalking tigers at their kills?

5. What does Corbett say has altered as much as ladies fashion over the years?

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