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

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

3. Who is the boy who is to be the sacrifice in the Bon Bibi play?
(a) Bon Bibi.
(b) Dhona.
(c) Dokkhin Rai.
(d) Dhukey.

4. How does Kusum's father die?
(a) He is hit by a car.
(b) He gets cholera and dies.
(c) He is attacked by a tiger.
(d) He has a sudden heart attack.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Piya anxious on the boat with Fokir in Part II?

2. What is the word for embankment of a river?

3. Who is Kusum married to?

4. Why does Fokir prevent Piya from saying the word tiger?

5. What organization does Nilima found?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Kanai explain to Piya the correct way to pronounce his name?

3. What does the destitution of the tide country in Lusibari remind Nilima and Nirmal of?

4. Why is Kanai traveling to Lusibari in Part I?

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

6. What kind of creature is the Orcaella a relative to?

7. What happens to Kusum's mother after her father dies?

8. Who brought up Fokir after his mother Kusum died?

9. Why did Kanai spend time in Lusibari with Nilima and Nirmal as a child?

10. What does Dhona get in return from Dokkhin Rai for sacrificing Dukhey in Part II?

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