1. What do the Gangulis do with their home while they are in India?
(a) Turn off the utilities and lock the doors.
(b) The sell it, figuring to buy another, nicer home when they return.
(c) Rent it to an unmarried couple, students at the university.
(d) Pay a company to check on it every so often.

2. What did Gogol do at his birthday party with friends that he'd never done before?
(a) He had a boy-girl party with dancing.
(b) He said no to a frosted cake and ice cream.
(c) He got presents from friends, something his parents had not allowed before.
(d) He finally had a frosted cake and ice cream.

3. How does Ashima's family keep in touch with her after Gogol's birth?
(a) They write letters, once as many as three a week.
(b) They communicate sporadically.
(c) They exchange long letters about once a month.
(d) They call every evening at six, right after dinner.

4. How do Gogol's parents explain his lack of an alternative identity to friends in India?
(a) They tell people he would only respond to Gogol.
(b) They say they forgot such things after living in America.
(c) They say alternative identities are not used in America.
(d) They say the law about names in America makes such identities difficult if not impossible.

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