1. How does Maxine treat Gogol's parents when they visit on their way to New Hampshire?
(a) She insults them by refusing to eat their Indian food.
(b) She asks questions that are much too personal.
(c) She is polite and draws them out in conversation.
(d) She ignores them, talking only to Gogol.

2. 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) The sell it, figuring to buy another, nicer home when they return.
(c) Rent it to an unmarried couple, students at the university.
(d) Turn off the utilities and lock the doors.

3. In India, is it necessary to come up with a name for a child immediately after birth?
(a) No, because Indians believe names can wait.
(b) Yes, because a name is extrememely important in India.
(c) Yes, because announcements cannot be sent out until the child has a name.
(d) Only if the child is in poor health and may not live long.

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

5. What does the Ganguli family do on the eleventh day after Ashoke's death?
(a) They dab themselves with mud and ashes for mourning.
(b) They return to India with Ashoke's ashes.
(c) They ask them if there is anything of Ashoke's that they can use.
(d) They invite friends to mark the end of the mourning period.