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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the Lusibari term for stingray?
(a) Methril-machh.
(b) Shankor-machh.
(c) Shasuksa.
(d) Merlinamach.
2. Why does Fokir leave Kanai on the island alone, briefly, in Part IV?
(a) Kanai wants to see if he can make it on his own in the wild.
(b) Kanai curses at Fokir and tells him to go away.
(c) Kanai tells Fokir he will never have Piya.
(d) Kanai is sick and wants to be alone.
3. Whose bhotbhoti does Fokir arrange to use to Take Piya back along the river in Part III?
(a) Kanai's.
(b) Nirmal's.
(c) Horen's.
(d) Nilima's.
4. Why do the villagers surround a small hut the night Piya and the others are docked at the edge of the mangroves?
(a) They believe they have trapped an evil spirit in the hut.
(b) A tiger has killed someone and has been trapped in the hut.
(c) A woman is having a baby in the hut.
(d) They believe they have trapped a burglar in the hut.
5. Who does Piya first meet in Lusibari?
(a) Moyna.
(b) Nirmal.
(c) Horen.
(d) Nilima.
6. What does Fokir tell Kanai when Kanai asks if he would ever think of visiting a city?
(a) He says he is afraid to take a plane.
(b) He says he dreams of cities all the time.
(c) He says he is afraid to drive a car.
(d) He says this life is enough for him.
7. Why is Moyna so upset with Fokir before he sets off with Piya and Kanai in Part IV?
(a) He was supposed to take Tutul to school, but instead he brought the boy to the shore.
(b) He took her father's boat.
(c) He took all the money in the house.
(d) He took all the food in the house.
8. Who was Kusum's husband?
(a) Kanaii.
(b) Nirmal.
(c) Rajen.
(d) Horen.
9. Who does Kusum introduce Nirmal to in Part III?
(a) Horen.
(b) Moyna.
(c) Kanaii.
(d) Fokir.
10. Who is Nirmal's favorite poet?
(a) Byron.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Yeats.
11. What happened to Kusum's village when she lived in Bangladesh?
(a) It was flooded.
(b) It was burned to ash.
(c) It was destroyed in an earthquake.
(d) It was taken over by the British.
12. After her first shower in Lusibari, how does Piya feel alone in her room?
(a) She is revisited by the terror she felt during the crocodile attack on the boat.
(b) She is unbearably tired.
(c) She feels lust for Kanai.
(d) She is very homesick.
13. What is the name of Horen's boat?
(a) Khoti.
(b) Laurel.
(c) Megha.
(d) Jen.
14. What food does Piya mostly subsist on when she is working in the field?
(a) Toast.
(b) Bananas.
(c) Apples.
(d) A nurtrition bar.
15. What sea creature did Tethys leave to her twins?
(a) Sharks.
(b) Octopuses.
(c) Whales.
(d) Dolphins.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Piya want to continue working with Fokir?
2. What is Piya happy to see on the door of the room Kanai shows her to?
3. What does Piya help Fokir do on the boat in Part III?
4. What does Piya think about how Fokir looks when she visits him and Moyna in Lusibari for the first time?
5. Why does Moyna get angry at Kanai in Part IV?
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