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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 203 - 272).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man Piya is involved with in Cambodia?
(a) Suhi.
(b) Rath.
(c) Mandolin.
(d) Barry.

2. What does Piya think cetaceans have a special gift for in Part III?
(a) Being spirit animals.
(b) Springing surprises.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Communicating with each other.

3. After her first shower in Lusibari, how does Piya feel alone in her room?
(a) She is very homesick.
(b) She is revisited by the terror she felt during the crocodile attack on the boat.
(c) She feels lust for Kanai.
(d) She is unbearably tired.

4. Why does Kanai tell Piya she is somewhat responsible for the scene at the hut in Part IV?
(a) She goes back to America and forgets about the poor villagers in the Sundarbans.
(b) She was not strong enough to summon the spirit of Bon Bibi.
(c) Conservationists push to preserve animal habitats without thinking about the interactions between those animals and humans in the real world.
(d) She did not donate enough to help keep the tiger reserve going safely.

5. Who offered to find Kusum's mother a job after Kusum's father's death?
(a) Nilima.
(b) Dilip Choudhury.
(c) Nirmal.
(d) Horen Naskor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nirmal's favorite poet?

2. What does Kanai tell Piya that Fokir views the things she sees as fauna?

3. Who did Nirmal always reserve the last word for, according to Kanai?

4. Why does Piya want to continue working with Fokir?

5. Why does Piya become so upset at the scene of the villagers gathered around the hut in the mangroves in Part IV?

(see the answer key)

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