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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of people are Ashima's neighbors in her first home in America?
(a) Out-of-work Americans.
(b) A mix of peoples from all over the world.
(c) Other immigrants from India.
(d) Families of professors at Harvard.

2. How does Gogol go about changing his school documents that were completed using the name Gogol?
(a) Only when necessary because paperwork doesn't match.
(b) In stealth, not letting his classmates know about it.
(c) Methodically, one paper at a time but in no hurry.
(d) He almost boasts to everyone about his name change.

3. What is the one complication about Gogol/Nikhil's new name?
(a) He forgets and signs his old name every so often.
(b) He can't remember to respond to his new name.
(c) He doesn't feel like a Nikhil.
(d) He only wishes he'd done it years earlier.

4. What does Gogol's father give him on his fourteenth birthday?
(a) An expensive leather jacket.
(b) The baseball bat Gogol truly wanted.
(c) A book of short stories by Nikoli Gogol.
(d) A gift certificate, because he doen't know what Gogol wants.

5. What do the Gangulis do with their home while they are in India?
(a) Turn off the utilities and lock the doors.
(b) Rent it to an unmarried couple, students at the university.
(c) The sell it, figuring to buy another, nicer home when they return.
(d) Pay a company to check on it every so often.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashima do before Christmas while Ashoke is in Ohio?

2. Why can't Ashima get hold of Gogol to tell him of his father's death?

3. How does the breakup between Gogol/Nakhil and Ruth happen?

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

5. What do Gogol's parents think of his wanting to change his name?

(see the answer key)

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