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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 is Corbett's first strategy to hunt the man-eater of Mohan?
(a) Beating the tiger out of a ravine.
(b) Watching t
(c) Staking out buffalo as bait.
(d) Keeping vigil on the road until the tiger passes.

2. What ailment does Corbett wake up with the first morning in Mohan?
(a) A fever.
(b) Laryngitis.
(c) A horrible rash.
(d) A cough.

3. What does Corbett say he has a great distaste for?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Having an animal get the better of him.
(c) Going into mountain rivers over his head.
(d) Wastefulness.

4. What does Corbett recommend great care be taken over when stalking tigers at their kills?
(a) To not alert the other wildlife.
(b) To not get drowsy.
(c) To kill the animal outright on the first shot.
(d) To develop perfect patience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals visit the scene of the missing dead chital?

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

3. Why did the young man and a group of men venture far from the village?

4. Where does the Pipal Pani tiger make his home?

5. Why does the tiger leave the base of Corbett's tree?

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

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

4. What were Corbett's initial plans for the sleeping arrangement in Mohan? How and why were they changed?

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

6. What happens when Corbett returns to the spot he left the fish?

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

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