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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett go to when he sees the Pipal Pani tiger and its mate?

2. What is the last technique that Corbett uses to hunt the Thak man-eater?

3. When does Corbett encounter the snake in the pool of water?

4. What had the young man in the story just completed when he goes to leave some things at home?

5. What does Corbett say he has a great distaste for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. What alarms the Pipal Pani tiger and his mate of Corbett's approach? Give details.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about malaria and its role in history.

Part 1. What is malaria? Give a description of the biology of the disease.

Part 2. Who is susceptible to malaria? Describe how malaria is transmitted, who is most at risk, and why.

Part 3. What measures can be taken to prevent or treat malaria?

Part 4. What role has malaria played in a historical event? How might it have changed history?

Essay Topic 2

Jim Corbett was similar in many ways to Theodore Roosevelt. Write an essay about Theodore Roosevelt.

Part 1. Give a short biography of Theodore Roosevelt's life, including a brief synopsis of his political career.

Part 2. Describe Theodore Roosevelt as a hunter and outdoors man.

Part 3. How was Roosevelt a leader in conservation? What legacy of conservation did he leave behind?

Part 4. How are Jim Corbett and Theodore Roosevelt alike?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about Jim Corbett.

Part 1. Provide a general biography of the life of Jim Corbett.

Part 2. Explain how Jim Corbett became a hunter of man-eating tigers and leopards. Share some of his experiences.

Part 3. Describe the efforts and importance that Jim Corbett assigned to conservationism. What did he achieve and what is his legacy?

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