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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 happens when the fish Corbett first catches reaches the end of the fishing line?
(a) Corbett starts reeling the fish in.
(b) The line goes dead.
(c) The rod jams and won't reel in the line.
(d) The fish leaps out of the water.

2. Which of the following best characterizes how Corbett feels after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?
(a) Relief.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Utter sadness.
(d) Mixed emotions.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the size of the fish Corbett catches?
(a) Large.
(b) Medium sized.
(c) Small.
(d) Huge.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that makes the valley Corbett fishes in so pleasant?
(a) The perfume of the flowers.
(b) The mountains nearby.
(c) The abundant wildlife.
(d) None of the above.

5. When the Pipal Pani tiger first goes briefly missing, where has he gone?
(a) To get a mate.
(b) To hide with injuries.
(c) Into more populated areas.
(d) To move to areas of more plentiful game.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson does Corbett teach the cub of Pipal Pani?

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

3. When does the father finally find the remains of his son?

4. What does Corbett discover the morning after the storm when he checks on the first buffalo he staked out in hopes of luring the Mohan man-eater?

5. What reason did Corbett find for the tiger in Mohan to have become a man-eater?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the setting particularly relevant to the story The Fish of My Dreams?

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

4. How does the Pipal Pani tiger get injured in the head? What does Corbett see that he is able to know this?

5. 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?

6. Describe the night Corbett spends in a tree waiting for the Kanda man-eater. What happens at night and how does it end?

7. 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.

8. What is Corbett's main intention at the locale of the story The Fish of My Dreams? Why is he having difficulty and when does he decide to go fishing?

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

10. 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?

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