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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?
(a) The lake she once visited as a child.
(b) Her childhood home in India.
(c) No place, she's totally involved in her present situation.
(d) The apartment she shares with her husband.

2. What does Ashima do with most of the gifts Gogol gets at his second birthday party?
(a) She sets them aside for regifting.
(b) She returns those that are duplicates for gift certificates.
(c) She finds places for them in Gogol's crowded room.
(d) The stores them in their original boxes for future use.

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

4. 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.

5. What does the judge ask Gogol when he goes to court to change his name?
(a) Whether he is a felon hiding from the law.
(b) What problems his name has caused him.
(c) What is the reason for wishing to change his name.
(d) Whether his family agrees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ashoke and Ashima within a decade of moving to America?

2. What does the nurse do when Ashoke and Ashima are first together with their child?

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

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

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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