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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ashoke remember when he and Ashima bring Gogol home?
(a) How beautiful Ashima had been when they first met.
(b) That he has a meeting and must soon leave for a while.
(c) The conversation on the train before the train wreck.
(d) That he'd not wanted children so soon.

2. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?
(a) Her childhood home in India.
(b) The lake she once visited as a child.
(c) The apartment she shares with her husband.
(d) No place, she's totally involved in her present situation.

3. Where do women in India go to have babies?
(a) The maternity ward in a hospital.
(b) Home to their family.
(c) An obstetrical clinic.
(d) They stay home and have help from their mother-in-law.

4. What does Ashima try to make for a midnight snack?
(a) Rice Krispies bars
(b) Pickles, because she's pregnant
(c) A concoction sold for pennies in Calcutta
(d) Ice cream

5. What kind of name does Ashoke consider Gogol to be when he chooses it for his son?
(a) A name his child should be proud to carry.
(b) A name that will look good on an American letterhead.
(c) He's too confused to think about names and chooses the first one that comes to mind.
(d) A pet name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashoke do while pacing in the mens' waiting room at the hospital?

2. What changes about the planned visit to India when Gogol is about a year old?

3. What two kinds of names do children in India usually receive?

4. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?

5. How does Ashima react to Gogol's time in pre-school?

(see the answer key)

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