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

2. What indication does Corbett find that the latest victim of the tiger was not looked for after being taken?
(a) No footprints.
(b) Body parts.
(c) A sickle and three lengths of rope on the ground.
(d) A beaded necklace on the ground.

3. What does Corbett say is more important than the weight of the fish?
(a) The memory of the beautiful place.
(b) The taking of a life from the river.
(c) The epic battle in order to catch it.
(d) The thrill of the moment.

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

5. What does Corbett thinks killed the buffalo that died but was not killed by the tiger?
(a) A leopard.
(b) A villager hoping to lure the tiger with blood.
(c) A snake.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brings the tiger to the base of the tree Corbett is sitting in?

2. Why did the young man and a group of men venture far from the village?

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

4. Which of the following is a habit of the Thak man-eater?

5. What does Corbett watch the Pipal Pani do over the winter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does an old lady and a sixteen year old girl end up on the ledge of a cliff? What happens?

2. Describe Corbett's first encounter with the man-eater of Mohan when he senses him above the road on the overhang.

3. Why is the setting particularly relevant to the story The Fish of My Dreams?

4. Why does Corbett worry about Ibbotson and his men one night after they leave him to sit up over a kill at night? What happens, and why didn't Corbett do anything?

5. What run-in does the labor camp have with the man-eater of Thak? What happens?

6. What encounter does Corbett have with a hamadryad or a cobra while he is hunting the Kanda man-eater? What happens and why does Corbett feel better afterwards?

7. What happens when Corbett returns to the spot he left the fish?

8. Why is Corbett's feeling of relief greater than usual when he shoots the Thak man-eater?

9. Describe the night Corbett spends in a tree waiting for the Kanda man-eater. What happens at night and how does it end?

10. What bothers Corbett about the way he kills the man-eater of Mohan? Why? What reasons does he give to justify his actions?

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