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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ashima feel about Gogol's living with Maxine?
(a) She refuses to admit he's living with a woman he's not married to.
(b) She constantly tells him he must not live with her.
(c) She's glad because soon Gogol and Maxine will marry.
(d) She doesn't like it but knows she must accept it.

2. What was Ashima's initial reaction to her first home in America?
(a) It was not at all what she had expected.
(b) She was delighted with the sunny, spacious rooms.
(c) She didn't like the neighbors.
(d) It was smaller than Ashoke had described.

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

4. What do guests say about Sonia at the rice ceremony?
(a) She'll always live between two cultures.
(b) She is the true American.
(c) She'll be important when she grows up.
(d) She doesn't want to know her future.

5. What does Ashima do immediately after she gives birth to Gogol?
(a) She gives thanks for a healthy child.
(b) She cries from the pain.
(c) She begins to shiver profoundly.
(d) She asks the nurse to give her child to her immediately.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Gogol do as soon as he gets the news of his father's death?

4. What does Ashoke tell Ashima is the reason he's in the hospital?

5. What kind of part-time job does Ashima get in chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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