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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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 doesn't want to maneuver a gun with sweaty hands.
(d) He has an overwhelming sense of doom.

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

6. Why does Corbett need to kill a snake before hunting a man-eater?
(a) The odor of snake meat is a powerful lure.
(b) Superstition.
(c) To create faith in him from the people of the area.
(d) He uses the venom as poison.

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

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

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

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

11. Where does the fish swim to while Corbett watches?
(a) A deep pool.
(b) To the other side of the river.
(c) Down stream and out of sight.
(d) In between two large rocks.

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

13. What did the Pipal Pani tiger no longer permit after his mate left?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Corbett to watch his kill site.
(c) Other tigers to be nearby.
(d) Vultures to feed on his kills.

14. What does Corbett say he has a great distaste for?
(a) Having an animal get the better of him.
(b) Wastefulness.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Going into mountain rivers over his head.

15. What happened to the chital that the tiger had killed and left?
(a) A leopard took it away.
(b) The sandy bank gave way and deposited it into a river.
(c) Another tiger had arrived and eaten much of it.
(d) Some men cut it up and took it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Corbett's best guess at the weight of the fish?

3. What does Corbett says happens when one has unlimited undisturbed water to fish in?

4. Which of the following best characterizes how Corbett feels after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?

5. What does Corbett watch the Pipal Pani do over the winter?

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