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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. How does Kanai feel when he first sees Piya arrive in Lusibari?
2. What does Kanai have to move quickly to do when Moyna drops the hurricane lamp?
3. Why does Piya become so upset at the scene of the villagers gathered around the hut in the mangroves in Part IV?
4. Whose bhotbhoti does Fokir arrange to use to Take Piya back along the river in Part III?
5. Why does Kanai tell Piya that Moyna is impressed she is a scientist?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do people in the Lusibari and surrounding regions not like to say the word tiger?
2. How does Piya communicate about the creatures she studies even though she does not know the native language?
3. How does Kusum die?
4. Why does Moyna react so angrily when Fokir gives a sting-ray tail to Tutul to play with?
5. What does Nilima tell Kanai about tigers before he sets off with Piya, Fokir, and Horen?
6. What does Kanai tell Piya about the differences between her and Fokir?
7. How does Fokir handle Piya's outburst at the village where the tiger is trapped in the hut?
8. Why does Kanai tell Piya Moyna is remarkable?
9. Why does Moyna become so upset with Kanai in Part IV?
10. What does Piya tell Kanai about Kolkata and cetaceans?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Kusum believes that the shushuk are Bon Bibi's messengers? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
How does the village mob's brutal attack on, and killing of, a tiger change Piya's opinion of Fokir for the worse? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why does Nirmal decide he wants to teach in Morichjhapi? Why does Nilima have such strong objections to the idea of his working there? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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