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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 is Ashima's second pregnancy like?
(a) She is constantly sick and smells bother her a lot.
(b) She is sick but doesn't let that slow her down.
(c) She is in serious danger of having a miscarriage.
(d) She has no problems such as when she had Gogol.

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

3. How does Gogol go about changing his school documents that were completed using the name Gogol?
(a) Only when necessary because paperwork doesn't match.
(b) In stealth, not letting his classmates know about it.
(c) Methodically, one paper at a time but in no hurry.
(d) He almost boasts to everyone about his name change.

4. What do most of their Indian friends give the couple as wedding presents?
(a) Gifts of money.
(b) Useful household items.
(c) Incense and other reminders of their Indian heritage.
(d) A wide assortment of upscale gifts.

5. What terrifies Ashima about having a child?
(a) The pain of childbirth.
(b) The difficulty of getting her figure back afterwards.
(c) Raising it in a place so far from home.
(d) Caring for a child with an absent husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Ganguli family do in the beginning of their life in their new home, in the evenings?

2. What error in speech does Ashima make when talking with the nurse?

3. What does Gogol's father say after giving him a special gift for his fourteenth birthday?

4. What does Gogol do after window shopping with Moushumi?

5. What is the one complication about Gogol/Nikhil's new name?

(see the answer key)

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