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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. Where does Corbett leave the fish after he catches it?

2. When does the Kanda tiger stalk and prepare to hunt the men from the village?

3. When Corbett is on a tall rock and thinks he sees the man-eater below him, what is he really looking at?

4. What do Corbett's men deduce when they see the tree Corbett had been in all night and the tiger blood?

5. Which of the following best characterizes the size of the fish Corbett catches?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Corbett experience mixed emotions after shooting the Pipal Pani tiger?

2. What unexpected thing does the Pipal Pani tiger do when he gets shot in the shoulder?

3. What is Corbett's main intention at the locale of the story The Fish of My Dreams? Why is he having difficulty and when does he decide to go fishing?

4. How would you characterize the relationship between Corbett and the Pipal Pani tiger over the tiger's life?

5. What does Corbett hear from the village of Thak when he sitting out over a dead buffalo waiting for the tiger to return? Why is this unusual? Where does it come from and what do people say it was?

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

7. What does Corbett mean when he says he sets out to follow the "drag" of the Mohan man-eater? Why does he say this term is misleading?

8. Describe Corbett's first encounter with the Kanda man-eater. How does it end?

9. Summarize the story Corbett tells of bravery in the chapter about the Kanda man-eater.

10. How does the Pipal Pani tiger get injured in the head? What does Corbett see that he is able to know this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an essay about Hinduism.

Part 1. Describe a general overview of the religion including number of followers and primary regions of the world where it is practiced.

Part 2. Write about the various different types of Hinduism and how they differ from each other.

Part 3. What are some of the major concepts and deities of Hinduism?

Part 4. What common Hindu notions, words, or practices have been incorporated into our society?

Essay Topic 3

Corbett implies in the beginning of the final chapter "Just Tigers," that shooting wildlife with a camera is infinitely harder than shooting them with a gun. Write an essay about wildlife photography.

Part 1. Describe the field of wild animal photography and film making.

Part 2. Give some examples of some extraordinary shots caught in the wild in pictures or on film.

Part 3. What are the challenges of wildlife photography?

Part 4. What techniques do people use to overcome the challenges of photographing or filming wild animals?

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