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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 says happens when one has unlimited undisturbed water to fish in?

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

3. What do Corbett's men deduce when they see the tree Corbett had been in all night and the tiger blood?

4. When Corbett hears what he believes are stones falling at night and investigates, what does he find?

5. What ailment does Corbett wake up with the first morning in Mohan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Corbett worry about Ibbotson and his men one night after they leave him to sit up over a kill at night? What happens, and why didn't Corbett do anything?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about hemp.

Part 1. What is hemp? Where does it come? What is useful about it?

Part 2. Discuss the historic uses of hemp. What did our forefather's use hemp for?

Part 3. Why is hemp not as widespread today as it was?

Part 4. What products are available today in hemp, and how do they compare to their non-hemp counterparts?

Essay Topic 2

What constitutes a man-eater?

Part 1. Describe the animals around the world who have been known to become man-eaters.

Part 2. Why do animals occasionally hunt human flesh? Are there general reasons or individual ones?

Part 3. Name some famous cases of man-eaters from around the world and describe how the material previously discussed applies to them individually.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about tiger development.

Part 1. Describe the infancy of tigers. Where are litters usually born? How many are there in a usual litter? How long until a young tiger can leave the den?

Part 2. Describe the adolescence of tigers. What can a young tiger do when it first starts leaving the den? How long does he continue to stay with his mother? How does he change and grow during this time?

Part 3. How long does a tiger stay an adult? When do they breed? What changes happen during the normal adult life of a tiger?

Part 4. When is a tiger considered old? What are some common ailments of aging tigers? Is the normal lifespan different for captive or wild tigers?

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