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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Corbett say has altered as much as ladies fashion over the years?
(a) His reasons for loving nature.
(b) Fishing rods and tackle.
(c) His excuses to stay out late.
(d) The kinds of fish in the river.

3. What had the young man in the story just completed when he goes to leave some things at home?
(a) Finish school.
(b) Training as a tour guide.
(c) An seafaring internship.
(d) Enlist in the military.

4. 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 terrified group of women.
(d) A group of hunters leaving the area.

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

6. Who lost the most cattle to the Pipal Pani tiger?
(a) Corbett.
(b) The government.
(c) The man who shot him.
(d) A very poor couple trying to raise six children.

7. Which of the following is a theory that Corbett develops about why the Thak tigress had become a man-eater?
(a) She had a severe mineral deficiency.
(b) None of the above.
(c) She had helped a previously killed man-eater hunt and eat its victims.
(d) The logging in the area was driving away her prey.

8. Why does the tiger leave the base of Corbett's tree?
(a) He gets tired of prowling.
(b) Corbett fires his rifle and drives it away.
(c) Another tiger calls nearby.
(d) None of the above.

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

10. What does Corbett thinks killed the buffalo that died but was not killed by the tiger?
(a) Fear.
(b) A snake.
(c) A villager hoping to lure the tiger with blood.
(d) A leopard.

11. What does Corbett hear from Thak that goes unexplained?
(a) Three terrible human cries of anguish.
(b) A flock of crows gathering and calling.
(c) Tiger calls.
(d) Two tigers fighting.

12. What does Corbett says happens when one has unlimited undisturbed water to fish in?
(a) It is easy to be indecisive.
(b) Even skeptics turn into fishermen.
(c) One gets overcritical.
(d) All the spots start looking the same.

13. Why does Corbett give up trying to film his subject?
(a) The tigress gets hostile.
(b) The light gets bad.
(c) The subject disappears.
(d) He gets tired.

14. When Corbett returns to Thak the second time, what is creating a lot of noise in the area?
(a) Mining started down the valley.
(b) The logging operations.
(c) The furious calls of the tiger.
(d) Langur breeding season.

15. Who does the Thak man-eater cow into silence when they shout at her?
(a) A group of big game hunters from out of town.
(b) The rescue party of her last victim.
(c) Corbett's men.
(d) The men at the labor camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the snake do when Corbett hits the back of its head with a stone?

2. What is Corbett hoping to do after he sends his men back when he gives up filming?

3. Why is the killing of the Thak man-eater especially important to the Forest Department?

4. Which of the following best describes Ibbotson?

5. What ailment does Corbett wake up with the first morning in Mohan?

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