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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had the young man in the story just completed when he goes to leave some things at home?
(a) Finish school.
(b) An seafaring internship.
(c) Enlist in the military.
(d) Training as a tour guide.

2. Who was the first victim of the Mohan Man-eater?
(a) An injured old lady.
(b) A girl who stayed with her injured companion.
(c) A mother out cutting grass for her cattle.
(d) A child who strayed into the forest.

3. What is missing from the first kill site that Corbett sees of the Thak man-eater?
(a) Tracks.
(b) Blood.
(c) Evidence of struggle.
(d) A drag.

4. When Corbett returns to Thak the second time, what is creating a lot of noise in the area?
(a) Mining started down the valley.
(b) Langur breeding season.
(c) The logging operations.
(d) The furious calls of the tiger.

5. Where does the fish swim to while Corbett watches?
(a) A deep pool.
(b) In between two large rocks.
(c) To the other side of the river.
(d) Down stream and out of sight.

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

7. Which of the following best characterizes how Corbett feels after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?
(a) Utter sadness.
(b) Relief.
(c) Mixed emotions.
(d) Nostalgia.

8. What do Corbett's men deduce when they see the tree Corbett had been in all night and the tiger blood?
(a) That Corbett was invincible.
(b) That Corbett had been killed.
(c) That the tiger was dead or dying.
(d) None of the above.

9. What animal does Corbett see and wish he could photograph in the story about the fish of his dreams?
(a) A python.
(b) A water fowl.
(c) A langur.
(d) A ghooral.

10. Who comes to see Corbett nearly as soon as he arrives.
(a) The father of the latest victim.
(b) The oldest women of the village.
(c) The local authorities.
(d) The people of the nearby village.

11. What does Corbett realize after reeling in sixty yards of the fishing line?
(a) He did not use bait.
(b) There is a branch wrapped in his line.
(c) None of the above.
(d) The fish is still on the line.

12. What does Corbett hear from Thak that goes unexplained?
(a) Three terrible human cries of anguish.
(b) Tiger calls.
(c) Two tigers fighting.
(d) A flock of crows gathering and calling.

13. What does Corbett say he has a great distaste for?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Wastefulness.
(c) Going into mountain rivers over his head.
(d) Having an animal get the better of him.

14. Why did the young man and a group of men venture far from the village?
(a) To find the young man's father.
(b) They heard the tiger and decided to hunt it.
(c) In search of fodder for cattle.
(d) Three women were missing.

15. Who does Corbett stop and talk to on the train into the Mohan forest bungalow?
(a) A group of hunters leaving the area.
(b) An old man who was attacked years before by the tiger.
(c) A terrified group of women.
(d) None of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corbett go to when he sees the Pipal Pani tiger and its mate?

2. How effective is sitting out over kills for Corbett when hunting the Thak man-eater?

3. When does Corbett encounter the snake in the pool of water?

4. What happened to the chital that the tiger had killed and left?

5. Where does the Pipal Pani tiger make his home?

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