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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Moushumi and Gogol go to Paris after they are married?
(a) Moushumi is asked to lecture there.
(b) Moushumi's father is there, they visit him and his new wife.
(c) It's a long-delayed honeymoon.
(d) Moushumi loves the city so Gogol suggests a trip there.

2. What does Gogol remember in the days after his first date with Moushumi?
(a) How she'd finished his sentences for him.
(b) Things about her as a child that he'd forgotten.
(c) That he doesn't want to marry someone with a similar background to his.
(d) The way her hair blows in the wind.

3. Where do Moushumi and Gogol meet for their first date?
(a) At Gogol's apartment in New York City.
(b) They meet in Central Park.
(c) At Ashima's house.
(d) At a bar that's small, dark, and silent.

4. What do the Gangulis do with their home while they are in India?
(a) Pay a company to check on it every so often.
(b) Rent it to an unmarried couple, students at the university.
(c) Turn off the utilities and lock the doors.
(d) The sell it, figuring to buy another, nicer home when they return.

5. How do Gogol and Moushumi dress for their wedding reception?
(a) They revert to traditional Indian dress.
(b) They wear formal Western clothes.
(c) They are comfortable in casual clothes.
(d) They dress for warm weather for their honeymoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people are Ashima's neighbors in her first home in America?

2. What happened to one of the administrative assistants at NYU?

3. Why can't Ashima get hold of Gogol to tell him of his father's death?

4. Why did Moushumi walk out of a hair salon?

5. What did Ashima do upon first meeting Ashoke when he visited her family home in India?

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