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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 letter is included in the chapter about the Kanda man-eater?
(a) An admittance letter for the young man.
(b) A letter of defeat from a hunter after the tiger.
(c) A letter from the people asking Corbett for his help.
(d) The resignation of the game warden.

2. Where does Corbett leave the fish after he catches it?
(a) Hanging out of otter's reach from a tree branch.
(b) Buried unter some medium sized rocks on the bottom of the river.
(c) In water tied to a tree.
(d) Back into the still pool.

3. What happens to Corbett when he retrieves the fish?
(a) He loses his rod and tackle in the fast current.
(b) He is jerked headlong into the river.
(c) He slips and loses the fish.
(d) He gets stalked by a python.

4. What does Corbett thinks killed the buffalo that died but was not killed by the tiger?
(a) A snake.
(b) Fear.
(c) A leopard.
(d) A villager hoping to lure the tiger with blood.

5. How does Corbett decide to continue his pursuit of the man-eater after his unsuccessful first encounter with him?
(a) Stake out another bufallo.
(b) Lace the kill with poison.
(c) Organize a beat.
(d) Keep vigil over the kill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Corbett trying to film out in the submontane valley?

2. What did the Pipal Pani tiger no longer permit after his mate left?

3. When the Pipal Pani tiger first goes briefly missing, where has he gone?

4. What happened to the chital that the tiger had killed and left?

5. Which of the following best describes Ibbotson?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do many men come to the area of the Thak man-eater? What are they doing there and how do they feel about the tiger? How do they show it?

2. Describe how Corbett finally encounters the Thak man-eater?

3. What does Corbett hear from the village of Thak when he sitting out over a dead buffalo waiting for the tiger to return? Why is this unusual? Where does it come from and what do people say it was?

4. What happens between the time that Corbett throws his line in the water and when he tosses the flopping fish onto the shore?

5. Why is Corbett forced to leave the fish? What does he do with it when he leaves?

6. What run-in does the labor camp have with the man-eater of Thak? What happens?

7. Why does Corbett think that he might be able to lure the tiger to him by calling? How does his attempt go, and how does he explain the results?

8. Describe the setting of the chapter The Fish of My Dreams.

9. Describe Corbett's first encounter with the man-eater of Mohan when he senses him above the road on the overhang.

10. Why is Corbett's feeling of relief greater than usual when he shoots the Thak man-eater?

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