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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Gogol want to go to school when he begins Kindergarten?
(a) He is afraid of the strange building.
(b) He has been told he will be called by a different name.
(c) He wants to stay home and play.
(d) He doesn't want to be the only Indian at the school.

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

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 it's not Indian and is absurd and obscure.
(d) That many people in India have pet names when children.

5. What memory of the train wreck still haunts Ashima, even after his marriage and starting a new life in America?
(a) The terrible silence after that first, wrenching crash.
(b) The cries of the people trapped inside.
(c) The twisted, battered, capsized bogies of the train.
(d) The still sky above such a terrible scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gogol's father give him on his fourteenth birthday?

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

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

4. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?

5. What do the Gangulis do with their home while they are in India?

(see the answer key)

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