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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do women in India go to have babies?
(a) They stay home and have help from their mother-in-law.
(b) Home to their family.
(c) The maternity ward in a hospital.
(d) An obstetrical clinic.

3. What does Ashima do immediately after she gives birth to Gogol?
(a) She gives thanks for a healthy child.
(b) She begins to shiver profoundly.
(c) She asks the nurse to give her child to her immediately.
(d) She cries from the pain.

4. What kind of people are Ashima's neighbors in her first home in America?
(a) Families of professors at Harvard.
(b) Out-of-work Americans.
(c) A mix of peoples from all over the world.
(d) Other immigrants from India.

5. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?
(a) A sunny, comfortable home shared by three immigrant families.
(b) A fully furnished apartment near Harvard and MIT.
(c) A two-story Georgian home the Ganguli family purchased.
(d) An apartment in the slums, surrounded by noisy neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of name does Ashoke consider Gogol to be when he chooses it for his son?

2. Who will name Ashoke and Ashima's baby?

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

4. What does the man who lends Ashoke the book on the train tell him that he should do?

5. What does Ashima try to make for a midnight snack?

(see the answer key)

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