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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Chowgarh tigers doing when Corbett first sees them?
(a) Stalking a young girl.
(b) Fighting over part of a kill.
(c) Sleeping in the sunshine.
(d) Wrestling together.

2. Whose home does Corbett see when traveling from town to town in pursuit of the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) An American hunter.
(b) The only survivor of a Chowarh tiger attack.
(c) The first victim of the Chowgarh tiger, an out of town goat herd.
(d) None of the above.

3. What tale about himself does Corbett refute?
(a) That he is convinced he is to die killed by a tiger.
(b) That he has killed a tiger bare handed.
(c) That on this and other occasions he dressed as a woman to attract the man-eater and killed it with sickle.
(d) That he has killed hundreds of man-eaters.

4. What does Corbett find when he goes to investigate a report of a tiger killing a cow in a village near to Champawat?
(a) No information that could explain what happened.
(b) Indication it was one of the man-eater tigress's cubs.
(c) Evidence that it was the man-eater tigress.
(d) A cow killed by a leopard.

5. How does Corbet spend the first night in Pali?
(a) Outside alone watching the road while his men were safe in a room.
(b) Trying to re-assure the villagers.
(c) Barricaded in a house with everyone else.
(d) Helping the townspeople search for the tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Corbett tell of Robin?

2. What does Corbett say plays an important part in the sport of hunting man-eaters?

3. What does Corbet wedge into his door to get ventilation but keep the tiger out?

4. What does Corbett learn from the Chital?

5. In what state does Corbett find the people of Pali when he arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Corbett attempt to do by climbing a tree while stalking the Bachelor of Powalgarh? Is he successful?

2. Describe how Corbett shoots three ghooral mountain goats on his first outing with some men from Pali. What was their reaction? Why?

3. How does Corbett attempt to use water buffalo to help him stalk the Bachelor of Powalgarh? What happens?

4. What story does Corbett recount about the first time he took Robin out hunting as a puppy? What was Corbett's reaction to what happened?

5. Explain what happens after Corbett notices that Robin is missing.

6. Summarize the hunt for the leopard that Corbett tells which culminates in Robin leaving him in a tight corner.

7. What happens when Corbett first gets a shot at the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

8. Explain the encounter the author has a young boy with a tiger in the forest.

9. What does the author give as the reason for the difference in hunting habits of man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?

10. Explain the circumstance in which Corbett shoots the first of the Chowgarh tigers. Why does he choose the tiger he does? Which one does he kill?

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