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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Corbett and Robin do when the leopard is so inaccessible?

2. What tactic does Corbett decide to try when pursuing the tigress of Champawat is unsuccessful?

3. How many people does the tigress of Champawat kill in all?

4. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

5. When does Robin disappear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain how the chital is both a help and a hindrance to Corbett as he stalks the wounded leopard with Robin.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What does the author give as the reason for the difference in hunting habits of man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relationship between hunting and conservation?

Part 1. Historically, what role have hunters played in the creation of legislation for conservation?

Part 2. Write about several people who were both well known hunters and conservationists.

Part 3. What role do hunters today play in conservation?

Essay Topic 2

Many people that Corbett helped had never seen a rifle being used before his, and even in a land where man-eating tigers were wreaking havoc guns were scarce. Write a history of the development of firearms.

Part 1. Where did the first firearm originate from? What weapons were their ancestors?

Part 2. Describe the evolution of firearms from the first ones to the ones we are familiar with today. Include their migration all around the globe.

Part 3. How did firearms change the world around them?

Essay Topic 3

Jim Corbett was similar in many ways to Theodore Roosevelt. Write an essay about Theodore Roosevelt.

Part 1. Give a short biography of Theodore Roosevelt's life, including a brief synopsis of his political career.

Part 2. Describe Theodore Roosevelt as a hunter and outdoors man.

Part 3. How was Roosevelt a leader in conservation? What legacy of conservation did he leave behind?

Part 4. How are Jim Corbett and Theodore Roosevelt alike?

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