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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 does Corbett find from the little girl the tigress of Champawat carried off?
(a) A blue necklace.
(b) A sari.
(c) A leg from below the knee.
(d) All of the above.

2. Where does Corbett first see the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) After many days of stalking him.
(b) While hunting a man-eater in a neighboring province.
(c) In a beautiful glade near his home.
(d) From the window of a train.

3. What nerve does Robin have that he is unable to control?
(a) The twitching of his left ear.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The one on that makes the hair on the back of his leg stand up.
(d) Salivating.

4. It most cases, which of the following best characterizes the tiger's change from animal to human flesh?
(a) Defensive.
(b) Rancorous.
(c) Instinctual.
(d) Accidental.

5. How does the length of the Bachelor of Powalgarh measured by Corbett and his sister compare to the estimates of others who had seen him years before?
(a) It is much, much, more.
(b) It is slightly less.
(c) It is the same.
(d) It is slightly more.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Corbett choose to approach the leopard?

2. What does Corbett say he has noted about the coats of man-eaters?

3. Who does Corbett go fetch to help him retrieve the body of the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

4. What does Corbett find is the cause of the Champawat tigress's need to hunt people?

5. How is inter village communication maintained during the time of the Chowgarh tiger when the paths are too dangerous to use?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the bear hunt start when Corbett is out shooting ghooral for the village? What happens in the bear hunt and how do they eventually kill the bear?

2. What goes wrong with the beat that Corbett plans to drive the tigress down a gorge? How does it all work out?

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

4. What opportunity does Corbett miss when he sees just the hind leg and tail of a tiger while stalking the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh? Why does he make the decision that he does?

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

6. What does Corbett say about the cubs of man-eaters? Why?

7. What happened to other hunters that nearly were able to shoot the Bachelor of Powalgarh? Tell how he escaped twice despite being only feet away from seasoned hunters that were hunting him.

8. What story of his own attack does the man with the mauled face tell Corbett in the Chowgarh man-eater? How did the man live?

9. Why did the group of twenty men not pursue the woman they saw carried off? What happened when a rescue party did search for her?

10. What story does Corbett tell as a warning against assuming that a wounded animal is where you last saw it?

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