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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ashoke's career advance in Chapter 3?
(a) He is offered a post in California and accepts.
(b) He is asked to join a government research project.
(c) He is promoted over an American teacher.
(d) He is hired as assistant professor of electrical engineering.

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

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

4. What does Gogol hate about explaining his name to people?
(a) That his parents didn't have a name ready when he was born.
(b) How to pronounce it correctly.
(c) That many people in India have pet names when children.
(d) That it's not Indian and is absurd and obscure.

5. Why does the principal finally end up registering Gogol by his pet name?
(a) She doesn't understand Indian culture.
(b) He doesn't want to be called by any other name.
(c) She says the name on his birth certificate is his proper name.
(d) She feels Gogol is closer to an American name than Nikhil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ashoke and Ashima within a decade of moving to America?

2. Why is Ashima embarrassed to wear a hospital gown?

3. What about the house becomes one of Gogol's earliest memories?

4. What kind of name does Ashoke consider Gogol to be when he chooses it for his son?

5. How do Gogol's parents explain his lack of an alternative identity to friends in India?

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