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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gogol's father give him on his fourteenth birthday?
(a) A book of short stories by Nikoli Gogol.
(b) The baseball bat Gogol truly wanted.
(c) A gift certificate, because he doen't know what Gogol wants.
(d) An expensive leather jacket.

3. 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 is afraid of the strange building.
(d) He doesn't want to be the only Indian at the school.

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

5. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?
(a) A two-story Georgian home the Ganguli family purchased.
(b) A fully furnished apartment near Harvard and MIT.
(c) A sunny, comfortable home shared by three immigrant families.
(d) An apartment in the slums, surrounded by noisy neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?

2. What did Ashima do upon first meeting Ashoke when he visited her family home in India?

3. What was Ashoke doing the day he almost died?

4. What makes Ashima's first outing with Gogol take longer than expected?

5. What's the first thing that causes Ashima and Ashoke to suspect she's pregnant?

(see the answer key)

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