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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What about the house becomes one of Gogol's earliest memories?
(a) The movement of the sun's rays across his bedroom floor.
(b) Playing in the dirt because there is no yard yet.
(c) The sound of the kids next door playing baseball.
(d) His parents discussing how to furnish their new home.

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

4. Are there many children about Gogol''s age at his second birthday party?
(a) There are a few his age, most are older.
(b) He and Sonia are the only children, the guests are his parents' friends.
(c) Most of the children are about Gogol's age.
(d) Only one, a girl named Moushumi.

5. Why doesn't Gogol want to go to school when he begins Kindergarten?
(a) He wants to stay home and play.
(b) He has been told he will be called by a different name.
(c) He doesn't want to be the only Indian at the school.
(d) He is afraid of the strange building.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do guests say about Sonia at the rice ceremony?

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

4. What happens when the Ganguli family enters the Dum Dum Airport?

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

(see the answer key)

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