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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does a book save Ashoke's life?
(a) It stops a piece of flying metal that could have killed him.
(b) He is reading it and, thus, is in a safe place during the train wreck.
(c) The book is like a warning and he avoids disaster.
(d) It doesn't have anything to do with his survival.

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

4. What does Ashoke do while pacing in the mens' waiting room at the hospital?
(a) He reads the Globe.
(b) He drags his fingers through his hair.
(c) He carries flowers he has bought for Ashima.
(d) He tries to calm down the other expectant fathers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In India, is it necessary to come up with a name for a child immediately after birth?

5. What about the house becomes one of Gogol's earliest memories?

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