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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Kanda Man-Eater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the father finally find the remains of his son?
(a) When he climbs a knoll to rest at dawn.
(b) When he trips into the ravine.
(c) When the villagers return to work.
(d) When Corbett tracks the tiger.

2. What interesting information do the people of Mohan give Corbett about the man-eater?
(a) It usually kills people while they sleep.
(b) It moans almost all the time.
(c) It moves at a sideways angle.
(d) None of the above.

3. What happens to the girl the Chowgarh man-eater leaves wounded?
(a) She heals.
(b) She dies minutes later.
(c) She dies weeks later of infection.
(d) She is left in the square where the tiger kills her that night.

4. How does Corbet spend the first night in Pali?
(a) Barricaded in a house with everyone else.
(b) Outside alone watching the road while his men were safe in a room.
(c) Helping the townspeople search for the tiger.
(d) Trying to re-assure the villagers.

5. Where does Corbett leave the fish after he catches it?
(a) Back into the still pool.
(b) Hanging out of otter's reach from a tree branch.
(c) Buried unter some medium sized rocks on the bottom of the river.
(d) In water tied to a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Corbett is on a tall rock and thinks he sees the man-eater below him, what is he really looking at?

2. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

3. What is only two or three hundred yards from the Foresters hut where Corbett stays in Mohan?

4. What indication does Corbett find that the latest victim of the tiger was not looked for after being taken?

5. What does Corbett learn about the Chowgrarh tiger at the first village?

(see the answer key)

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