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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of gifts does Gogol get at his second birthday party?
(a) Baseballs, footballs and soccer balls.
(b) Mementos of India.
(c) Trading cards for his collection.
(d) Dictionaries, calculators, sweaters, and pens.

2. What does the nurse do when Ashoke and Ashima are first together with their child?
(a) She tells them that a child is a fragile thing.
(b) She shows them how to change his diapers.
(c) She leaves them alone for a while.
(d) She makes sure their wrist bands match.

3. What bad news does Ashima receive from her family in India soon after Gogol's birth?
(a) Her grandmother has had a stroke.
(b) Her father has lost his job.
(c) Their home was flooded and suffered extensive damage.
(d) Her little brother's wedding has been called off.

4. What changes about the planned visit to India when Gogol is about a year old?
(a) Another family from India joins them for the trip.
(b) Gogol gets sick and is in the hospital for most of the visit.
(c) Ashoke's schedule necessitates cancelling the trip.
(d) Ashima's father dies, necessitating her going early.

5. What error in speech does Ashima make when talking with the nurse?
(a) None, English was her best subject in Calcutta.
(b) She forgets to use the plural when mentioning toes and fingers.
(c) She slips into her native tongue without realizing it.
(d) She uses the wrong word for baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?

2. What does the man who lends Ashoke the book on the train tell him that he should do?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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