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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does the generator at the guest house in Lusibari switch off at night?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 10.
(d) Midnight.

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

3. What does Moyna hear in the end of Part II that frightens her?
(a) A snake.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A lion.
(d) A crocodile.

4. What is Piya's only jewelry?
(a) Bangle bracelets.
(b) A nose ring.
(c) A wedding ring.
(d) A silver stud in one ear.

5. What is Moyna studying in Part II?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Carpentry.
(d) Nursing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the guard on Piya's boat stop Fokir at first?

2. Who meets Kanai at the train station in Canning?

3. Who is Fokir's son?

4. What does Piya ask Fokir to do when he starts singing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Piya struggle so much in the water of the river when she falls in?

2. Why is Moyna so frustrated with her husband Fokir?

3. Why does everyone call Nilima Mashima in Lusibari?

4. Why does Piya recognize the reddish checkered cloth on Fokir's boat?

5. What problems does Piya encounter with the men on the first boat she hires?

6. How does Kanai know Piya is a foreigner?

7. Who is Bon Bibi?

8. Why does the guard on Piya's launch boat apprehend the fisherman and his son?

9. What is one of the Badabon Trust's first actions?

10. Why does the story of Bon Bibi make Kusum so upset in Part II?

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