1. In what type of neighborhood do the Gangulis finally purchase a home?
(a) Where Ashoke can get to work quickly.
(b) An ordinary area where plastic wading pools are left out on the lawns.
(c) In the country, where there are no neighbors to look down on them.
(d) In an historic area where they will be steeped in tradition.

2. What does Gogol do with the book his father gives him for his fourteenth birthday?
(a) He loses it almost immediately.
(b) He shuts the book and puts it on a shelf, unread.
(c) He leafs through the book to see what it's about.
(d) He sets it aside to read later when he has more time.

3. What does Ashoke do while pacing in the mens' waiting room at the hospital?
(a) He tries to calm down the other expectant fathers.
(b) He drags his fingers through his hair.
(c) He carries flowers he has bought for Ashima.
(d) He reads the Globe.

4. What does Ashima do with most of the gifts Gogol gets at his second birthday party?
(a) She returns those that are duplicates for gift certificates.
(b) The stores them in their original boxes for future use.
(c) She finds places for them in Gogol's crowded room.
(d) She sets them aside for regifting.

5. 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.