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

2. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?
(a) The leopard springs at them from behind a log.
(b) He finds the leopard nearly dead in a bush.
(c) Robin springs the leopard from a bush and Corbett shoots it.
(d) The leopard chases Robin across a clearing.

3. What other animal does Corbett almost kill while hunting for the Chowgarh tigers?
(a) A ghooral that had hurt a little girl.
(b) A leopard that had killed people in another area.
(c) A young tiger that was passing through.
(d) An old leopard that was killing cattle.

4. What tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?
(a) Forest fire.
(b) Poison bait.
(c) A beat to drive her down a narrow gorge.
(d) Snare traps.

5. What connects the appearance of man-eating leopards to disease epidemics?
(a) The change in livestock management.
(b) The human population is easier prey.
(c) One of the Hindu traditions of disposing of the dead.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is being threatened by the Bachelor of Powalgarh when Corbett comes across them?

2. Whose aid does Corbett unsuccessfully enlist to find the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh?

3. Which of the following is something that the frequency with which a man-eater will kill depends on?

4. What does Corbett find exasperating about one of the men that guides in Champawat?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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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