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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nurse do when Ashoke and Ashima are first together with their child?
(a) She leaves them alone for a while.
(b) She makes sure their wrist bands match.
(c) She tells them that a child is a fragile thing.
(d) She shows them how to change his diapers.

2. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?
(a) No place, she's totally involved in her present situation.
(b) Her childhood home in India.
(c) The apartment she shares with her husband.
(d) The lake she once visited as a child.

3. As Ashoke waits while Ashima gives birth, who does he thank for his survival and this miracle of new life about to begin?
(a) All the people of his family who came before him.
(b) The man who lent him the book that saved his life.
(c) Gogol, the Russian writer who saved his life in the train wreck.
(d) God, he is a very religious man.

4. Why is Ashima embarrassed to wear a hospital gown?
(a) It's ugly.
(b) The back is open.
(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 twisted, battered, capsized bogies of the train.
(b) The terrible silence after that first, wrenching crash.
(c) The cries of the people trapped inside.
(d) The still sky above such a terrible scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Ashima's first outing with Gogol take longer than expected?

2. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?

3. What bad news does Ashima receive from her family in India soon after Gogol's birth?

4. What changes about the planned visit to India when Gogol is about a year old?

5. What does Ashoke remember when he and Ashima bring Gogol home?

(see the answer key)

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