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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 watch the Pipal Pani do over the winter?
(a) Grow up.
(b) Start to watch people on roads.
(c) Kill leopards.
(d) Drive away other tigers.

2. What does Corbett realize after reeling in sixty yards of the fishing line?
(a) None of the above.
(b) He did not use bait.
(c) There is a branch wrapped in his line.
(d) The fish is still on the line.

3. After having very little success using buffalo as lures, what does Corbett try using?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Villagers.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Goats.

4. Why did the young man and a group of men venture far from the village?
(a) They heard the tiger and decided to hunt it.
(b) To find the young man's father.
(c) Three women were missing.
(d) In search of fodder for cattle.

5. What animal does Corbett see and wish he could photograph in the story about the fish of his dreams?
(a) A water fowl.
(b) A python.
(c) A langur.
(d) A ghooral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What letter is included in the chapter about the Kanda man-eater?

2. What does Corbett says happens when one has unlimited undisturbed water to fish in?

3. What time of day does Corbett kill the Thak man-eater?

4. What do Corbett's men deduce when they see the tree Corbett had been in all night and the tiger blood?

5. What does Corbett hear that makes him try a different tactic in his hunt for the Kanda man-eater?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does an old lady and a sixteen year old girl end up on the ledge of a cliff? What happens?

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

3. 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?

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

5. How would you characterize the relationship between Corbett and the Pipal Pani tiger over the tiger's life?

6. When Corbett waits in a tree for the Kanda man-eater, he is jerked to full awareness by a langur warning call. What does Corbett first think it is that made the langur call, and what does it turn out to be? Explain.

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

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

9. Why does Corbett worry about Ibbotson and his men one night after they leave him to sit up over a kill at night? What happens, and why didn't Corbett do anything?

10. Describe how the Pipal Pani tiger gets shot for a second time, and how the men who go in search of him unknowingly put their lives in great danger, and what may have saved them.

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