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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Gogol and his friends celebrate his fourteenth birthday party?
(a) They go to a pizza parlor where they play video games.
(b) They have pizzas and watched a baseball game on TV.
(c) They got to a baseball game and have pizza afterwards.
(d) They go swimming at a nearby pool.

2. Why does the principal finally end up registering Gogol by his pet name?
(a) She feels Gogol is closer to an American name than Nikhil.
(b) She doesn't understand Indian culture.
(c) She says the name on his birth certificate is his proper name.
(d) He doesn't want to be called by any other name.

3. Who will name Ashoke and Ashima's baby?
(a) They will ask an American because they want an American name.
(b) Ashoke, because Indian fathers always name their children.
(c) Ashima's grandmother.
(d) They have asked Ashoke's relatives in India to come up with a suitable name.

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

5. How does Ashoke's career advance in Chapter 3?
(a) He is offered a post in California and accepts.
(b) He is hired as assistant professor of electrical engineering.
(c) He is promoted over an American teacher.
(d) He is asked to join a government research project.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Gogol want to go to school when he begins Kindergarten?

2. Why doesn't Ashoke explain how Gogol came about his name when he gives him the book by Nikoli Gogol?

3. What does Gogol think when his parents tell him they are going to India for eight months?

4. What does Gogol's father say after giving him a special gift for his fourteenth birthday?

5. Where do women in India go to have babies?

(see the answer key)

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