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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What brings the tiger to the base of the tree Corbett is sitting in?
(a) It is stalking him.
(b) Coincidence.
(c) A teasing langur.
(d) It is passing on its way to the dead buffalo.

3. When the Pipal Pani tiger first goes briefly missing, where has he gone?
(a) To hide with injuries.
(b) Into more populated areas.
(c) To get a mate.
(d) To move to areas of more plentiful game.

4. What causes the tiger to flee from the kill area in the morning after Corbett's night tree vigil?
(a) A wild shot Corbett made.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Another tiger arriving.
(d) The call of Corbett's men on the ridge.

5. What is Corbett hoping to do after he sends his men back when he gives up filming?
(a) Go for a swim.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Catch a fish for his dinner.
(d) Get one last glimpse of the python.

6. Which of the following best characterizes how the tiger cub approached the place he had left the chital?
(a) Directly and casually.
(b) Caustiously and thoughtfully.
(c) Impatiently and angrily.
(d) Fearfully and nervously.

7. What is Corbett's first strategy to hunt the man-eater of Mohan?
(a) Watching t
(b) Staking out buffalo as bait.
(c) Keeping vigil on the road until the tiger passes.
(d) Beating the tiger out of a ravine.

8. What does Corbett worry the Pipal Pani tiger will do after being wounded?
(a) Return to the village like he had before.
(b) Become a man-eater.
(c) Hole up and die.
(d) Move to another area.

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

10. Why is Corbett in a hurry to find the tiger as time moves on?
(a) The tigress is killing many, many people.
(b) He has promised his family to retire on the 1st.
(c) The contractors are about to arrive with men.
(d) He knows the tiger is about to move locations.

11. What animals visit the kill site the first night Corbett sits out waiting for the Thak man-eater?
(a) Two porcupines and a bear.
(b) A sambhar and a porcupine.
(c) A leopard and a sambhar.
(d) Two bears.

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

13. Who was the first victim of the Mohan Man-eater?
(a) A girl who stayed with her injured companion.
(b) An injured old lady.
(c) A child who strayed into the forest.
(d) A mother out cutting grass for her cattle.

14. Who comes to see Corbett nearly as soon as he arrives.
(a) The local authorities.
(b) The father of the latest victim.
(c) The oldest women of the village.
(d) The people of the nearby village.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the young man in the story just completed when he goes to leave some things at home?

2. What letter is included in the chapter about the Kanda man-eater?

3. What does Corbett hear that makes him try a different tactic in his hunt for the Kanda man-eater?

4. What is missing from the first kill site that Corbett sees of the Thak man-eater?

5. What happens to Corbett when he retrieves the fish?

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