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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 animals visit the scene of the missing dead chital?
(a) A leopard and a boar.
(b) A boar and two chital.
(c) A tiger and a langur.
(d) Two langurs and a leopard.

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

3. What does Corbett say has altered as much as ladies fashion over the years?
(a) His reasons for loving nature.
(b) His excuses to stay out late.
(c) The kinds of fish in the river.
(d) Fishing rods and tackle.

4. Who is with Corbett when he shoots the Thak man-eater?
(a) Ibbotson.
(b) Four men and two goats.
(c) The men from the labor camp.
(d) Eight villagers from Thak.

5. What does the father do when he realizes his son is missing?
(a) Weep uncontrollably.
(b) Gather a group to go on a tiger hunt.
(c) Searches all night in the wilderness for him.
(d) Send a telegram to Corbett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interesting information do the people of Mohan give Corbett about the man-eater?

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

3. Who comes to see Corbett nearly as soon as he arrives.

4. What does the snake do when Corbett hits the back of its head with a stone?

5. What animals visit the kill site the first night Corbett sits out waiting for the Thak man-eater?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?

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

4. Describe the encounter Corbett has on the trail with the woman filling a water jug. What is he happy he has accomplished?

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

6. What does Corbett mean when he says he sets out to follow the "drag" of the Mohan man-eater? Why does he say this term is misleading?

7. What encounter does Corbett have with a hamadryad or a cobra while he is hunting the Kanda man-eater? What happens and why does Corbett feel better afterwards?

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

10. 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?

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