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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Robin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?
(a) She became religious.
(b) She lost her power of speech.
(c) She died of a heart attack.
(d) She threw up.

2. What do Corbett and Robin do when the leopard is so inaccessible?
(a) Shoot where the leopard is likely to be in hopes of hitting it or driving it out.
(b) Go home and return the next day.
(c) Have a group of men beat the leopard out for them.
(d) Climb a nearby tree and out wait the leopard.

3. What does Corbett find when he goes to investigate a report of a tiger killing a cow in a village near to Champawat?
(a) A cow killed by a leopard.
(b) Indication it was one of the man-eater tigress's cubs.
(c) Evidence that it was the man-eater tigress.
(d) No information that could explain what happened.

4. How does Corbett choose to approach the leopard?
(a) He circles around him, spiraling inward.
(b) Creeping toward him in the cover of a fallen log.
(c) With all the men in long line moving forward together.
(d) He sends Robin first to scare him out of cover.

5. When do tigers sometimes hunt people?
(a) When people start to work in their territory.
(b) When they are compelled to through stress of circumstance.
(c) After they have been shot at by hunters.
(d) When their diet is low in salt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Corbet spend the first night in Pali?

2. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?

3. What does Corbett say he has noted about the coats of man-eaters?

4. Which of the following is NOT something that a tiger depends on for the success of its attack when killing its prey?

5. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?

(see the answer key)

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