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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Corbett find from the little girl the tigress of Champawat carried off?
(a) A blue necklace.
(b) A leg from below the knee.
(c) A sari.
(d) All of the above.

2. In what state does Corbett find the people of Pali when he arrives?
(a) Furiously pounding the bush to drive the tiger away.
(b) Loading up their belongings to leave.
(c) In a town meeting deciding what to do about the tiger.
(d) In abject terror and locked in their homes.

3. What does Corbett decide to do when stalking the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) Dress as woman working in the field.
(b) Lure the tiger to him.
(c) Ambush the tiger at a water hole.
(d) Take only a light manueverable rifle.

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

5. What does Corbett says tigers do not know about people?
(a) That we fight to preserve every one of our species.
(b) That we stalk them too.
(c) That we have no sense of smell.
(d) That it is technology, and not nature, that makes us strong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Robin amongst the litter?

2. Where does the wounded leopard go with Corbett and Robin tracking close behind?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that Corbett says worked to his advantage when he finally came face to face with the Chowgarh man-eater?

4. It most cases, which of the following best characterizes the tiger's change from animal to human flesh?

5. Why does Corbett decide to go home after wounding the leopard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the hunt for the leopard that Corbett tells which culminates in Robin leaving him in a tight corner.

2. What happened to other hunters that nearly were able to shoot the Bachelor of Powalgarh? Tell how he escaped twice despite being only feet away from seasoned hunters that were hunting him.

3. Why is the first girl that the Chowgarh tiger wounded not being tended to when Corbett arrives? How was she attacked and how did she get to town?

4. Explain what happens after Corbett notices that Robin is missing.

5. Describe the affliction of the tigress of Muktesar and circumstance of her first human kills.

6. What opportunity does Corbett miss when he sees just the hind leg and tail of a tiger while stalking the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh? Why does he make the decision that he does?

7. Describe how Corbett shoots three ghooral mountain goats on his first outing with some men from Pali. What was their reaction? Why?

8. Tell the story of the second wounded victim of the Chawgarh tiger that Corbett sees. How was she attacked and how did she return to town? What happens to her?

9. What story of his own attack does the man with the mauled face tell Corbett in the Chowgarh man-eater? How did the man live?

10. Explain the connection between a disease epidemic and the resurgence of man-eating leopards.

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