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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gogol decide to do a few weeks after moving away from his family and starting college?
(a) He decides to change his name legally.
(b) He moves back home because he's homesick and he commutes.
(c) Nothing, he finally accepts his name as a part of him.
(d) He goes a little wild and ends up drunk.

2. What does Gogol think when his parents tell him they are going to India for eight months?
(a) That they are homesick.
(b) That they are joking.
(c) That they are doing it only to acquaint him and Sonia with India.
(d) That they think he's become too American.

3. Why does Gogol tell the judge he's changing his name?
(a) People can't pronounce his name.
(b) He has always hated his name.
(c) He wants a more normal name.
(d) He doesn't like the writer he was named after.

4. Who will name Ashoke and Ashima's baby?
(a) They will ask an American because they want an American name.
(b) They have asked Ashoke's relatives in India to come up with a suitable name.
(c) Ashoke, because Indian fathers always name their children.
(d) Ashima's grandmother.

5. What kind of part-time job does Ashima get in chapter 7?
(a) She works behind the counter at a nearby fast food place.
(b) She works as a translator.
(c) She helps out at the library.
(d) She works for a home decorator as a consultant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashoke remember when he and Ashima bring Gogol home?

2. What did Gogol do at his birthday party with friends that he'd never done before?

3. How does Ashoke's career advance in Chapter 3?

4. On the plane, why is Gogol happy to sit apart from his parents?

5. How many people come to Sonia's rice ceremony when she's six months old?

(see the answer key)

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