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

2. Who does Nimral travel to Morichjhapi with?
(a) Horen.
(b) Nilima.
(c) Kusum.
(d) Kanai.

3. Who is Kanai's aunt he is visiting?
(a) Nirmala.
(b) Nilima.
(c) Malia.
(d) Mamina.

4. What could Piya see from her childhood bedroom window?
(a) San Francisco Bay.
(b) Puget Sound.
(c) St. John's Bay.
(d) The Hudson River.

5. Where does Kanai live?
(a) Lusibari.
(b) Kolkata.
(c) Gorang.
(d) New Delhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the evil forest spirit in the Bon Bibi play?

2. What does Fokir show Piya on Garjontola?

3. How does Piya communicate to locals the kind of animals she is studying?

4. What kind of container does Moyna leave Kanai his food in?

5. How do Nilima and Nirmal meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Bon Bibi?

2. Why does Nilima decline to help the people in Morichjhapi, as Kusum requests?

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

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

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

6. Why does Piya avoid most cooked foods when she is working in the field?

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

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

9. Why does everyone call Nilima Mashima in Lusibari?

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

(see the answer keys)

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