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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a friend bring to Corbett from the scene where the tiger was shot at night?
(a) A claw.
(b) A bone shard.
(c) A tooth.
(d) Some hairs.

2. What do the townspeople of Thak decide to do?
(a) Raise mony to pay Corbett.
(b) Abandon their town until the man-eater is killed.
(c) Enlist the help of a holy man to drive away the tiger spirit.
(d) Build a fence around their town.

3. What does the snake do when Corbett hits the back of its head with a stone?
(a) Flee into the forest.
(b) Sink to the bottom of the pool.
(c) Whip around and turn to attack him.
(d) Die.

4. What happens when the fish Corbett first catches reaches the end of the fishing line?
(a) The line goes dead.
(b) The rod jams and won't reel in the line.
(c) The fish leaps out of the water.
(d) Corbett starts reeling the fish in.

5. What ailment does Corbett wake up with the first morning in Mohan?
(a) A fever.
(b) A cough.
(c) Laryngitis.
(d) A horrible rash.

6. What does Corbett recommend great care be taken over when stalking tigers at their kills?
(a) To not get drowsy.
(b) To kill the animal outright on the first shot.
(c) To not alert the other wildlife.
(d) To develop perfect patience.

7. What does Corbett deduce about the man-eater from the information the villagers give him?
(a) It is very old.
(b) None of the above.
(c) It has an injured leg.
(d) It has poor eyesight.

8. How effective is sitting out over kills for Corbett when hunting the Thak man-eater?
(a) The tiger circled each time but sensed his presence.
(b) He had a perfect opportunity which he missed.
(c) Not at all.
(d) He sees the tiger regularly but never gets a shot.

9. When Corbett is on a tall rock and thinks he sees the man-eater below him, what is he really looking at?
(a) None of the above.
(b) A different tiger.
(c) The dead buffalo.
(d) The sunlight on grass with a dark rock behind.

10. Which of the following is a theory that Corbett develops about why the Thak tigress had become a man-eater?
(a) The logging in the area was driving away her prey.
(b) She had helped a previously killed man-eater hunt and eat its victims.
(c) None of the above.
(d) She had a severe mineral deficiency.

11. When the Pipal Pani tiger first goes briefly missing, where has he gone?
(a) To get a mate.
(b) To hide with injuries.
(c) To move to areas of more plentiful game.
(d) Into more populated areas.

12. What animal is the Pipal Pani tiger mistaken for and shot?
(a) A ghooral.
(b) A man-eating tiger.
(c) A pig.
(d) A hyena.

13. What does Corbett hear that makes him try a different tactic in his hunt for the Kanda man-eater?
(a) News of another death in a neighboring town.
(b) The tiger calling.
(c) A langur warning call.
(d) None of the above.

14. What does Corbett go to when he sees the Pipal Pani tiger and its mate?
(a) A road accident.
(b) A tall rock overlooking a neighboring valley.
(c) A vulture in a tree.
(d) None of the above.

15. What does Corbett do when he desperately needs to cough while stalking the man-eater of Mohan?
(a) Make bird sounds to clear his throat.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Chew some leaves that make his throat numb.
(d) Leave the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information does Corbett claim to know about the Pipal Pani Tiger's early history?

2. What animals visit the kill site the first night Corbett sits out waiting for the Thak man-eater?

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

4. What interesting information do the people of Mohan give Corbett about the man-eater?

5. How does the Pipal Pani tiger get wounded in the shoulder?

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