1. How do Gogol and his friends celebrate his fourteenth birthday party?
(a) They go swimming at a nearby pool.
(b) They go to a pizza parlor where they play video games.
(c) They have pizzas and watched a baseball game on TV.
(d) They got to a baseball game and have pizza afterwards.

2. What time of day was the train wreck?
(a) At two-thirty in the morning, the middle of the night actually.
(b) At noon, it happened when the depot was most crowded.
(c) In the evening, the engineer was blinded by the setting sun.
(d) In the morning, when animals crossed the tracks looking for water.

3. What changes about the planned visit to India when Gogol is about a year old?
(a) Ashoke's schedule necessitates cancelling the trip.
(b) Another family from India joins them for the trip.
(c) Ashima's father dies, necessitating her going early.
(d) Gogol gets sick and is in the hospital for most of the visit.

4. Why does Gogol's father take him to his first day of kindergarten?
(a) Ashima is overcome by tears and can't bring him herself.
(b) Ashima gets sick riding in a car so Ashoke must take him.
(c) It's a tradition in India for a father to do this.
(d) Gogol asks his father to bring him.

5. What about the house becomes one of Gogol's earliest memories?
(a) Playing in the dirt because there is no yard yet.
(b) The sound of the kids next door playing baseball.
(c) His parents discussing how to furnish their new home.
(d) The movement of the sun's rays across his bedroom floor.