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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do guests say about Sonia at the rice ceremony?
(a) She doesn't want to know her future.
(b) She'll always live between two cultures.
(c) She is the true American.
(d) She'll be important when she grows up.

2. What does Ashima tell Ashoke as soon as they bring their baby home?
(a) She says she can't do this.
(b) She rebukes him for not having done the dishes.
(c) She says nothing; she is tired and needs her sleep.
(d) She tells him they are starting on a new journey in life.

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

4. What did Ashima do upon first meeting Ashoke when he visited her family home in India?
(a) She impulsively stepped into the strange American shoes at the door.
(b) She said she didn't want to meet anyone from America.
(c) She changed into her most beautiful sari before meeting him.
(d) She asked him about his travels, especially about America.

5. What happens to Ashoke and Ashima within a decade of moving to America?
(a) They become true Americans.
(b) They lose touch with their families in India.
(c) They both become orphans.
(d) They seldom know what's going on with their families in India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?

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

3. Why doesn't the Ganguli baby get the name it was supposed to get before leaving the hospital?

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

5. What memory of the train wreck still haunts Ashima, even after his marriage and starting a new life in America?

(see the answer key)

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