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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 hear that makes him try a different tactic in his hunt for the Kanda man-eater?
(a) The tiger calling.
(b) News of another death in a neighboring town.
(c) A langur warning call.
(d) None of the above.

2. What is Corbett hoping to do after he sends his men back when he gives up filming?
(a) Catch a fish for his dinner.
(b) Get one last glimpse of the python.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Go for a swim.

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

4. What does Corbett claim to enjoy doing?
(a) Watching young tigers hunt.
(b) Stalking predators.
(c) Sitting up over a kill.
(d) Scaring the locals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett hear from Thak that goes unexplained?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Which of the following best characterizes how Corbett feels after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. Describe how Corbett finally encounters the Thak man-eater?

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

9. 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?

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

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