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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the word for Aunt in Part I?
(a) Auntie.
(b) Romana.
(c) Mamo.
(d) Mashima.
2. What does Nilima tell Kanai is remarkable about Moyna?
(a) She has survived the loss of two children.
(b) She has not been hindered by her physical disability.
(c) She is an orphan but managed to make her own way in the world that is hostile to women.
(d) She has not abandoned her own dreams.
3. What does Fokir fish for?
(a) Bass.
(b) Perch.
(c) Crabs.
(d) Whales.
4. Why is Moyna especially critical of Fokir's job as a fisherman?
(a) The fish will likely be gone in the region within about 15 years' time.
(b) Fisherman are usually learned, but they are not allowed to work in professional jobs.
(c) Fisherman often smell fairly bad after a day's work.
(d) Fisherman are on the bottom rung of the social ladder in Lusibari.
5. What profession does Kanai practice?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Translation.
(d) Law.
6. Who offered to find Kusum's mother a job after Kusum's father's death?
(a) Nirmal.
(b) Horen Naskor.
(c) Dilip Choudhury.
(d) Nilima.
7. What does Piya do for a living?
(a) She studies cetaceans.
(b) She studies air currents.
(c) She studies plants.
(d) She studies fish.
8. Where does Piya have relatives in India?
(a) Lusibari.
(b) Bengal.
(c) Morichjhapi.
(d) Calcutta.
9. Who is Kanai's late uncle?
(a) Fokana.
(b) Marshal.
(c) Nirmal.
(d) Pera.
10. What is Moyna studying in Part II?
(a) Carpentry.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Nursing.
(d) Cooking.
11. What has Kanai's late uncle left for him?
(a) His notebook of his own writings.
(b) His telescope collection.
(c) His house.
(d) His boat.
12. Who is the evil forest spirit in the Bon Bibi play?
(a) Dhona.
(b) Dokkhin Rai.
(c) Bon Bibi.
(d) Dhukey.
13. When was the last time Nilima saw Kusum?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1930.
14. How do widows in Lusibari dress?
(a) In borderless white saris.
(b) In borderless blue saris.
(c) In red saris.
(d) In black saris.
15. Where did Piya do her graduate program?
(a) St. Andrew's College.
(b) The Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
(c) Northeastern University.
(d) The Sundarbans Institute.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the word Badabon mean?
2. Where does Nirmal write the contents of his notebook that he leaves to Kanai?
3. What kinds of creatures are especially plentiful in the Sundarbans?
4. Who meets Kanai at the train station in Canning?
5. What does Moyna hear in the end of Part II that frightens her?
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