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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. Where does Corbett spend his first night in pursuit of the Chowgrarh tiger?
(a) Up a tree.
(b) None of the above.
(c) In a luxury tourist bungalow.
(d) In the village square comforting the locals.

2. What does Corbett says tigers do not know about people?
(a) That we fight to preserve every one of our species.
(b) That we stalk them too.
(c) That it is technology, and not nature, that makes us strong.
(d) That we have no sense of smell.

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

4. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?
(a) Speed.
(b) Condition of claws.
(c) Condition of teeth.
(d) Hearing.

5. Where does the wounded leopard go with Corbett and Robin tracking close behind?
(a) Into a dense, nearly impassable part of the forest.
(b) Into a large lantana bush.
(c) Into a large cluster of rocks.
(d) Up a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?

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

3. What does Corbett say about the bungalow he stayed in while in Champawat?

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

5. What does Corbett decide to do when stalking the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Explain what happens when Corbett takes the skin of the tigress of Champawat to the woman that had pursued it when it carried off her sister.

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

5. Explain what happens after Corbett notices that Robin is missing.

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

10. What story does Corbett tell as a warning against assuming that a wounded animal is where you last saw it?

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