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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 learn from the Chital?
(a) The leopard is alive and moving.
(b) The wounded leopard was sighted miles from the spot.
(c) A second leopard showed up.
(d) The leopard is near death.

2. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?
(a) When people start to work in their territory.
(b) After they have been shot at by hunters.
(c) When they are compelled to through stress of circumstance.
(d) When their diet is low in salt.

3. What had killed the cow that Corbett investigates when looking for the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) A young tiger looking for territory.
(b) A fine male leopard.
(c) The Chowgarh man-eater.
(d) A bear.

4. Why does Corbett decide to go home after wounding the leopard?
(a) He needs more men.
(b) It is getting close to dark.
(c) He thinks the leopard would die shortly.
(d) He needs to get Robin.

5. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?
(a) She lost her power of speech.
(b) She died of a heart attack.
(c) She threw up.
(d) She became religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett says tigers do not know about people?

2. What does Corbett learn about the Chowgrarh tiger at the first village?

3. What reputation does Corbett admit to having earned?

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

5. What nerve does Robin have that he is unable to control?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. Why is it important for Corbett to bring the family back any part, no matter how small. of a body that was taken away by a tiger?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Explain how the chital is both a help and a hindrance to Corbett as he stalks the wounded leopard with Robin.

8. Tell the story of the second wounded victim of the Chawgarh tiger that Corbett sees. How was she attacked and how did she return to town? What happens to her?

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

10. 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.

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