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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people come to Sonia's rice ceremony when she's six months old?
(a) The whole neighborhood, including their American friends.
(b) So many that the Gangulis rent a building on campus.
(c) Practically none because they have few Indian neighbors.
(d) Just a handful but they are good friends of the family.

2. Who else visits the baby Gogol in the hospital?
(a) No one, they don't know anyone in America yet.
(b) Neighbors of the Gangulis.
(c) A couple the Gangulis met and a professor friend of Ashoke.
(d) Ashoke's fellow students from college.

3. What happens to Ashoke and Ashima within a decade of moving to America?
(a) They become true Americans.
(b) They lose touch with their families in India.
(c) They seldom know what's going on with their families in India.
(d) They both become orphans.

4. What time of day was the train wreck?
(a) In the evening, the engineer was blinded by the setting sun.
(b) At noon, it happened when the depot was most crowded.
(c) In the morning, when animals crossed the tracks looking for water.
(d) At two-thirty in the morning, the middle of the night actually.

5. What does Gogol think when his parents tell him they are going to India for eight months?
(a) That they are joking.
(b) That they think he's become too American.
(c) That they are doing it only to acquaint him and Sonia with India.
(d) That they are homesick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the principal confused about Gogol's name?

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

3. What does Gogol do with the book his father gives him for his fourteenth birthday?

4. Are there many children about Gogol''s age at his second birthday party?

5. What does Ashima do with most of the gifts Gogol gets at his second birthday party?

(see the answer key)

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