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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 does Moya tell Kanai when Kanai asks her why she married Fokir?
(a) He would not understand.
(b) She had to marry him because it was an arranged marriage.
(c) She had to marry him because she was pregnant.
(d) She loves him deeply.

2. What does the word Badabon mean?
(a) It is Bengali for sing.
(b) It is Bengali for mangrove.
(c) It is Bengali for peace.
(d) It is Bengali for tiger.

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

4. What does Kanai tell that Piya New Delhi has become a center for?
(a) The energy industry.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Tourism.
(d) Conferences and media.

5. What is the word for embankment of a river?
(a) Badh.
(b) Dhakar.
(c) Bhoti.
(d) Rasim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nirmal tell Kusum he will teach Fokir and children like him?

2. Who offered to find Kusum's mother a job after Kusum's father's death?

3. What happens to Piya when she tries to hand Fokir money in Part I?

4. How does Kusum's father die?

5. What does Horen say about a pirate and a forester?

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