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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 happens to the girl the Chowgarh man-eater leaves wounded?
(a) She dies minutes later.
(b) She dies weeks later of infection.
(c) She is left in the square where the tiger kills her that night.
(d) She heals.

2. What story does Corbett tell of Robin?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The time Robin faced down a leopard.
(c) The one time Robin left him in a tight corner.
(d) The time Robin saved his life.

3. What does Corbett say about assuming a tiger is a man-eater?
(a) The circumstance must be understood.
(b) A post-mortem on the victim is important before assuming the death was caused by a tiger.
(c) It is best to give the tiger the benefit of the doubt.
(d) All of the above.

4. What keeps the exhausted Corbett awake when he finally returns to town after killing the first tiger?
(a) The villagers celebrating the death of the tiger.
(b) A violent storm.
(c) News of another person killed by the tiger.
(d) The second tiger circling the village and calling.

5. Why does Corbett ask that the government rewards for the Champawat Man-eater be cancelled?
(a) He's afraid it will cause people to try and "make" man-eaters to be killed for reward.
(b) He knows India can't afford it.
(c) He feels that people would come to disrespect tigers.
(d) He does not want to be classified as a reward hunter or risk being shot by other hunters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Vivians miss their opportunity to kill the man-eater of Chowgarh?

2. Who was Robin amongst the litter?

3. What does Corbett find from the little girl the tigress of Champawat carried off?

4. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?

5. What establishes the fact that the first of the Chowgrarh tigers Corbett kills is also a man-eater?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. Who does Corbett find when he is on the trail of the Bachelor of Powalgarh? What does he help do and what does he get asked to do?

7. Give some examples of situations in which a tiger might kill a human being but not be a man-eater.

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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