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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 learn of the location of the Bachelor of Powalgarh when he starts to pursue him?
(a) From other big game hunters who failed to shoot him.
(b) He sees the pugmarks when out walking Robin.
(c) He comes across him accidentally in the forest.
(d) From a dak runner passing his house that saw pugmarks.

2. When Corbett finally overtakes the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh, how is he moving through the forest?
(a) Running at full speed.
(b) Crawling on his stomach.
(c) Crashing blindly through the underbrush.
(d) Riding a water buffalo.

3. 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 the same.
(b) It is slightly less.
(c) It is much, much, more.
(d) It is slightly more.

4. 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.

5. What does Corbett say plays an important part in the sport of hunting man-eaters?
(a) Monkeys and luck.
(b) The other beings of the forest and the wind.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The wind and a good hunting dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens while Corbett is writing the story about Robin?

2. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?

3. What is a popular belief about man-eating tigers that Corbett claims is untrue?

4. When Robin backs away from the clerodendron bush, what does Corbett know this means?

5. Why do leopards, who are to a certain extent scavengers, become man-eaters?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Corbett attempt to use water buffalo to help him stalk the Bachelor of Powalgarh? What happens?

2. What does Corbett attempt to do by climbing a tree while stalking the Bachelor of Powalgarh? Is he successful?

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

4. Explain what happens when Corbett uses a buffalo to lure the tiger and waits for it on a rock ledge. What do the villagers discover.

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

6. 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?

7. What happens when Corbett first gets a shot at the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

8. What rumors about cross dressing does Corbett refute? What does he say is the truth?

9. 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?

10. What story does Corbett tell as a warning against assuming that a wounded animal is where you last saw it?

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