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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. Who does Corbett go fetch to help him retrieve the body of the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) The other big game hunters.
(b) None of the above
(c) The owner of the water fuffalo.
(d) His sister and a party of twenty men.

2. How does Corbett learn of the location of the Bachelor of Powalgarh when he starts to pursue him?
(a) From a dak runner passing his house that saw pugmarks.
(b) He comes across him accidentally in the forest.
(c) He sees the pugmarks when out walking Robin.
(d) From other big game hunters who failed to shoot him.

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

4. Which of the following best characterizes the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) The old foe of a renowned hunter.
(b) The youngest man-eater.
(c) The most sought after big game trophy in the province.
(d) A tiger of the most unusual color.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the girl the Chowgarh man-eater leaves wounded?

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

3. How many people does the tigress of Champawat kill in all?

4. What do the men from Champawat report having heard and seen?

5. What are the Chowgarh tigers doing when Corbett first sees them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the affliction of the tigress of Muktesar and circumstance of her first human kills.

3. 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?

4. Explain what happens when Corbett uses a buffalo to lure the tiger and waits for it on a rock ledge. What do the villagers discover.

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

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

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

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

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

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