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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the locals call Nirmal?

2. How do widows in Lusibari dress?

3. Who is Kanai's late uncle?

4. Where does Kanai live?

5. Where does Nirmal visit a school in the end of Part II?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where was Kanai's last encounter with Nirmal before Nirmal died?

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

10. How does Kanai know Piya is a foreigner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Ghosh use flashbacks, and what effect do the flashbacks have on the reader's experience of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why are so many women in Lusibari widows, and what does Nilima think of this phenomenon of widowhood when she first begins to understand it after moving to Lusibari? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What role do the shushuk (dolphins) play in both Piya's and Nirmil's part of the story in the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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