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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ailment does Corbett wake up with the first morning in Mohan?
(a) A horrible rash.
(b) A cough.
(c) Laryngitis.
(d) A fever.

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

3. What does Corbett discover the morning after the storm when he checks on the first buffalo he staked out in hopes of luring the Mohan man-eater?
(a) The buffalo half eaten by the tiger.
(b) The buffalo killed by lightening.
(c) The buffalo killed by a leopard.
(d) The buffalo gone.

4. When Corbett is on a tall rock and thinks he sees the man-eater below him, what is he really looking at?
(a) None of the above.
(b) A different tiger.
(c) The sunlight on grass with a dark rock behind.
(d) The dead buffalo.

5. Why does Corbett stop and rest just as he is approaching where he thinks the Kanda man-eater might be?
(a) The view is remarkable.
(b) He wants to listen to the sounds around him.
(c) He has an overwhelming sense of doom.
(d) He doesn't want to maneuver a gun with sweaty hands.

6. What is only two or three hundred yards from the Foresters hut where Corbett stays in Mohan?
(a) A tree where the tiger had killed just days before.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A village.
(d) A hunters lookout.

7. Which of the following best characterizes the size of the fish Corbett catches?
(a) Small.
(b) Large.
(c) Huge.
(d) Medium sized.

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

9. What does Corbett watch the Pipal Pani do over the winter?
(a) Start to watch people on roads.
(b) Grow up.
(c) Kill leopards.
(d) Drive away other tigers.

10. Why did the young man and a group of men venture far from the village?
(a) In search of fodder for cattle.
(b) To find the young man's father.
(c) They heard the tiger and decided to hunt it.
(d) Three women were missing.

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

12. Who does Corbett stop and talk to on the train into the Mohan forest bungalow?
(a) An old man who was attacked years before by the tiger.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A group of hunters leaving the area.
(d) A terrified group of women.

13. What letter is included in the chapter about the Kanda man-eater?
(a) A letter of defeat from a hunter after the tiger.
(b) The resignation of the game warden.
(c) An admittance letter for the young man.
(d) A letter from the people asking Corbett for his help.

14. Who is with Corbett when he shoots the Thak man-eater?
(a) Four men and two goats.
(b) Eight villagers from Thak.
(c) The men from the labor camp.
(d) Ibbotson.

15. What is Corbett trying to film out in the submontane valley?
(a) A python.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A rare butterfly.
(d) A tigress and her cubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett get distracted admiring as he is inspecting the road?

2. What time of day does Corbett kill the Thak man-eater?

3. What lesson does Corbett teach the cub of Pipal Pani?

4. How does Corbett get a hold of the fish?

5. What reason did Corbett find for the tiger in Mohan to have become a man-eater?

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