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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. How does Corbett choose to approach the leopard?
(a) He circles around him, spiraling inward.
(b) He sends Robin first to scare him out of cover.
(c) Creeping toward him in the cover of a fallen log.
(d) With all the men in long line moving forward together.

2. 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 down by a foot while she was climbing out of a tree.
(c) Jumped on her while she was cutting grass.
(d) Pulled her off a path from the next village.

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

4. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?
(a) She threw up.
(b) She died of a heart attack.
(c) She lost her power of speech.
(d) She became religious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Corbett eventually first encounter the leopard?

2. Why do the Vivians miss their opportunity to kill the man-eater of Chowgarh?

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

5. What had killed the cow that Corbett investigates when looking for the Chowgarh man-eater?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What goes wrong with the beat that Corbett plans to drive the tigress down a gorge? How does it all work out?

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

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

5. How does the bear hunt start when Corbett is out shooting ghooral for the village? What happens in the bear hunt and how do they eventually kill the bear?

6. Explain what happens when Robin first chases a langur monkey? What did Robin learn?

7. Explain what happens when Corbett takes the skin of the tigress of Champawat to the woman that had pursued it when it carried off her sister.

8. Explain the encounter the author has a young boy with a tiger in the forest.

9. Explain the circumstance in which Corbett shoots the first of the Chowgarh tigers. Why does he choose the tiger he does? Which one does he kill?

10. Why did the group of twenty men not pursue the woman they saw carried off? What happened when a rescue party did search for her?

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