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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maxine tell Gogol he should do while at his mother's house for the religious ceremony?
(a) She tells him his family needs him and he should stay there for a while.
(b) She tells him that she now sees they are too different to be together permanently.
(c) She tells him he should get away and go to New Hampshire.
(d) She tells him that she will try to fit in with his culture.

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

3. What happens while Moushumi and Gogol make love for the first time?
(a) The neighbor's cat comes in through the window.
(b) The door is open and a neighbor comes in to visit.
(c) Dinner burns and they must order something in.
(d) The phone rings and it's Gogol's mother.

4. What does Dimitri's neighborhood remind Moushumi of?
(a) Home.
(b) The home she will return to in an hour or so.
(c) Paris.
(d) The world she's always wanted and never had.

5. Where does Gogol first begin to introduce himself to people as Nikhil?
(a) At the bank where he gets a school loan.
(b) His first day of school in New Haven.
(c) At the park where a little boy asks his name.
(d) As soon as he gets home he introduces his new self to his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Moushumi's family done to find her a husband?

2. What does Gogol do with the book his father gives him for his fourteenth birthday?

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

4. How does Gogol go about changing his school documents that were completed using the name Gogol?

5. What does Ashoke do that reminds Ashima of the time he visited her parents' home?

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