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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does Ashima see Ashoke while he's working in Ohio?
(a) Once a month, it's all the time off he can get.
(b) Every three weekends he comes home.
(c) Every weekend, though it is expensive that often.
(d) His job doesn't allow for him to come home at all.

2. What do Maxine's parents do for Gogol while in New Hampshire?
(a) They initiate him into the American ritual of Sunday afternoon football.
(b) They throw a party just for him.
(c) They teach him how to play golf and tennis.
(d) They introduce him to an architect who can advance his career.

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

4. Why is Ashima embarrassed to wear a hospital gown?
(a) The back is open.
(b) It's ugly.
(c) It only comes to her knees.
(d) She hates white.

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. Where does Gogol first begin to introduce himself to people as Nikhil?

2. Who does Gogol meet on a train coming home from school during his freshman year in college?

3. What does Gogol get Moushumi as a Christmas gift?

4. What difference does Ashima notice in her days before and after Gogol's birth?

5. What catches Moushumi's eye as she goes through Alice's desk?

(see the answer key)

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