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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 chose to travel alone on the roads in the area of a man-eater?

2. What animal is the Pipal Pani tiger mistaken for and shot?

3. Why did the young man and a group of men venture far from the village?

4. What does Corbett realize after reeling in sixty yards of the fishing line?

5. What does Corbett see first on the trail as he is stalking the man-eater of Mohan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Corbett returns to the spot he left the fish?

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

3. 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?

4. Why does Corbett think that he might be able to lure the tiger to him by calling? How does his attempt go, and how does he explain the results?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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