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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 do the townspeople of Thak decide to do?
(a) Abandon their town until the man-eater is killed.
(b) Build a fence around their town.
(c) Enlist the help of a holy man to drive away the tiger spirit.
(d) Raise mony to pay Corbett.

2. What animal is the Pipal Pani tiger mistaken for and shot?
(a) A ghooral.
(b) A man-eating tiger.
(c) A hyena.
(d) A pig.

3. Why does Corbett stop and rest just as he is approaching where he thinks the Kanda man-eater might be?
(a) He wants to listen to the sounds around him.
(b) He doesn't want to maneuver a gun with sweaty hands.
(c) The view is remarkable.
(d) He has an overwhelming sense of doom.

4. What time of day does Corbett kill the Thak man-eater?
(a) At noon.
(b) At the very last light of day.
(c) At night.
(d) At the break of dawn.

5. Why is Corbett in a hurry to find the tiger as time moves on?
(a) He knows the tiger is about to move locations.
(b) The contractors are about to arrive with men.
(c) The tigress is killing many, many people.
(d) He has promised his family to retire on the 1st.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett get distracted admiring as he is inspecting the road?

2. Which of the following is a theory that Corbett develops about why the Thak tigress had become a man-eater?

3. When Corbett hears what he believes are stones falling at night and investigates, what does he find?

4. What is only two or three hundred yards from the Foresters hut where Corbett stays in Mohan?

5. What does Corbett say is more important than the weight of the fish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bothers Corbett about the way he kills the man-eater of Mohan? Why? What reasons does he give to justify his actions?

2. What unexpected thing does the Pipal Pani tiger do when he gets shot in the shoulder?

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

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

5. Describe Corbett's first encounter with the Kanda man-eater. How does it end?

6. Summarize the story Corbett tells of bravery in the chapter about the Kanda man-eater.

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

8. 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?

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

10. Why does Corbett experience mixed emotions after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?

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