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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the length of the Bachelor of Powalgarh measured by Corbett and his sister compare to the estimates of others who had seen him years before?
(a) It is much, much, more.
(b) It is slightly more.
(c) It is slightly less.
(d) It is the same.

2. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

3. What does Corbett say about the cubs of man-eaters?
(a) They are especially aggressive.
(b) They will automatically become man-eaters.
(c) He has never seen them become man-eaters.
(d) They usually die young.

4. Who comes to visit Corbett as soon as he arrives on the scene to hunt the Chowgarh tigers?
(a) Two other large game hunters.
(b) The mayor of the township.
(c) A spirit man protecting the tiger.
(d) The grandmother of the latest victim.

5. How is inter village communication maintained during the time of the Chowgarh tiger when the paths are too dangerous to use?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Radio.
(c) A serious of cables for messages.
(d) Shouting from high places.

6. What is a popular belief about man-eating tigers that Corbett claims is untrue?
(a) That they only attack at night.
(b) None of the above.
(c) That they prefer to attack a person from the front.
(d) That they do not eat the head, hands, and feet of human victims.

7. What does Corbett decide to do before following the blood trail from the leopard?
(a) Listen to the jungle sounds to see what he could tell about the leopard.
(b) Make a plan with the other men.
(c) Tie Robin to a tree.
(d) Clean his rifle.

8. Whose home does Corbett see when traveling from town to town in pursuit of the Chowgarh man-eater?
(a) An American hunter.
(b) The only survivor of a Chowarh tiger attack.
(c) None of the above.
(d) The first victim of the Chowgarh tiger, an out of town goat herd.

9. How had the Champawat tigress killed the last victim prior to Corbett's arrival?
(a) Snuck into her house and drug her away at night.
(b) Pulled her off a path from the next village.
(c) Jumped on her while she was cutting grass.
(d) Pulled her down by a foot while she was climbing out of a tree.

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

11. What tale about himself does Corbett refute?
(a) That on this and other occasions he dressed as a woman to attract the man-eater and killed it with sickle.
(b) That he is convinced he is to die killed by a tiger.
(c) That he has killed hundreds of man-eaters.
(d) That he has killed a tiger bare handed.

12. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?
(a) The leopard chases Robin across a clearing.
(b) Robin springs the leopard from a bush and Corbett shoots it.
(c) He finds the leopard nearly dead in a bush.
(d) The leopard springs at them from behind a log.

13. How does the tigress come to be the Champawat Man-eater?
(a) She arrives a man-eater from Nepal after killing two hundred people there.
(b) A hunter from Champawat shot her in the hip.
(c) She is old and was driven out of her territory by a younger tiger.
(d) None of the above.

14. What does Corbett learn from the Chital?
(a) The wounded leopard was sighted miles from the spot.
(b) A second leopard showed up.
(c) The leopard is alive and moving.
(d) The leopard is near death.

15. What does Corbett say he has noted about the coats of man-eaters?
(a) The tigers often have bald spots.
(b) They have all been remarkably fine.
(c) They smell.
(d) They have a tendency to be mangy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Corbett learn of the location of the Bachelor of Powalgarh when he starts to pursue him?

2. What tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?

3. What nerve does Robin have that he is unable to control?

4. What does Corbett deduce from the two wounded women that returned home after being attacked by the Chowgarh tiger?

5. Who was Robin amongst the litter?

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