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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. When did the tigress of Muktesar start killing people specifically for her to eat?
(a) Only after her cubs were grown.
(b) Her third victim.
(c) Her first victim.
(d) Her second victim.

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

3. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?
(a) She is old and was driven out of her territory by a younger tiger.
(b) None of the above.
(c) She arrives a man-eater from Nepal after killing two hundred people there.
(d) A hunter from Champawat shot her in the hip.

4. How is inter village communication maintained during the time of the Chowgarh tiger when the paths are too dangerous to use?
(a) Radio.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A serious of cables for messages.
(d) Shouting from high places.

5. What does Corbet wedge into his door to get ventilation but keep the tiger out?
(a) Thorn bushes.
(b) His saddle and gun.
(c) Chairs.
(d) A weaving loom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the last chance Corbett has to get a shot at the man-eater of Chowgarh on his first visit?

2. What does Corbett deduce from the two wounded women that returned home after being attacked by the Chowgarh tiger?

3. What does Corbett decide to do before following the blood trail from the leopard?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the first girl that the Chowgarh tiger wounded not being tended to when Corbett arrives? How was she attacked and how did she get to town?

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

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 the connection between a disease epidemic and the resurgence of man-eating leopards.

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

10. Explain what happens when Robin first chases a langur monkey? What did Robin learn?

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