1. How many people come to Sonia's rice ceremony when she's six months old?
(a) Practically none because they have few Indian neighbors.
(b) So many that the Gangulis rent a building on campus.
(c) The whole neighborhood, including their American friends.
(d) Just a handful but they are good friends of the family.

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

3. What time of day was the train wreck?
(a) In the evening, the engineer was blinded by the setting sun.
(b) At noon, it happened when the depot was most crowded.
(c) At two-thirty in the morning, the middle of the night actually.
(d) In the morning, when animals crossed the tracks looking for water.

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

5. What memory of the train wreck still haunts Ashima, even after his marriage and starting a new life in America?
(a) The cries of the people trapped inside.
(b) The still sky above such a terrible scene.
(c) The twisted, battered, capsized bogies of the train.
(d) The terrible silence after that first, wrenching crash.