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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. Why does Kanai tell Piya that Moyna is impressed she is a scientist?
(a) Moyna also wants to be a scientist.
(b) Moyna has never met a female scientist before.
(c) Moyna's father was a scientist.
(d) Moyna values education.

2. After her first shower in Lusibari, how does Piya feel alone in her room?
(a) She is very homesick.
(b) She feels lust for Kanai.
(c) She is unbearably tired.
(d) She is revisited by the terror she felt during the crocodile attack on the boat.

3. What does Piya say it means when marine mammals begin to disappear from an established habitat?
(a) They are experiencing disease.
(b) They are being hunted by tigers.
(c) Something is very wrong in the environment.
(d) They are being hunted by men.

4. What does Horen say about a pirate and a forester?
(a) A forester will always get you home safely.
(b) A pirate steals less often than a forester.
(c) A man will always be more respected as a forester than a pirate.
(d) A pirate is safer than a forester.

5. Why does Piya say she should have guessed Moyna was Fokir's wife?
(a) She has a lovely singing voice.
(b) She looks like the picture Fokir showed her.
(c) Her son has her eyes.
(d) She is just as Fokir described her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Fokir's last name?

2. When was the first time Kanai was ever in Canning?

3. What does Kanai have to move quickly to do when Moyna drops the hurricane lamp?

4. What does Piya tell Nilima her father does for a living?

5. Why does Kanai tell Piya she is somewhat responsible for the scene at the hut in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fokir handle Piya's outburst at the village where the tiger is trapped in the hut?

2. How does Kusum die?

3. In Part III, what happens just before Piya and Fokir decide to go to Lusibari?

4. What surprises Kanai about the nature of Piya's work when he goes out on the water with her?

5. What does Piya tell Kanai about Kolkata and cetaceans?

6. What makes Piya uncomfortable about the way she ends up paying Fokir for taking her on his boat?

7. How does the incident with the tiger in the village change Piya's opinion of Fokir?

8. What is one main reason Nirmal becomes involved in Morichjhapi?

9. How does Piya communicate about the creatures she studies even though she does not know the native language?

10. Why does Kanai tell Piya Moyna is remarkable?

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