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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. Why does Corbett stop and rest just as he is approaching where he thinks the Kanda man-eater might be?

2. What animal does Corbett see and wish he could photograph in the story about the fish of his dreams?

3. Which of the following is a theory that Corbett develops about why the Thak tigress had become a man-eater?

4. How does Corbett decide to continue his pursuit of the man-eater after his unsuccessful first encounter with him?

5. What does Corbett worry the Pipal Pani tiger will do after being wounded?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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.

6. How does the Pipal Pani tiger get injured in the head? What does Corbett see that he is able to know this?

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

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

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

10. Why does Corbett experience mixed emotions after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kumaon is located in the mountainous northern part of India. Write an essay about India and this particular region.

Part 1. Give an overview and introduction of India, focusing on what it was like during the early 1900's. Include a description of the English Indian Army.

Part 2. Introduce the region of Kumaon in context of the rest of India. Where is it located? What is its geography?

Part 3. Describe the populace of the Kumaon region. What kind of lives did they lead in the 1900's? What, if anything, has changed since then?

Part 4. How did the people of the Kumaon region co-exist with tigers and leopards in the early 1900's? How about today?

Essay Topic 2

Corbett implies in the beginning of the final chapter "Just Tigers," that shooting wildlife with a camera is infinitely harder than shooting them with a gun. Write an essay about wildlife photography.

Part 1. Describe the field of wild animal photography and film making.

Part 2. Give some examples of some extraordinary shots caught in the wild in pictures or on film.

Part 3. What are the challenges of wildlife photography?

Part 4. What techniques do people use to overcome the challenges of photographing or filming wild animals?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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