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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Ashoke and Ashima give in to American customs?
(a) They let Sonia and Gogol choose American food at the supermarket.
(b) They wear American clothes even in their own home.
(c) They cease celebrating Indian holidays.
(d) They buy season tickets to sporting events.

2. When does the idea to change his name first occur to Gogol?
(a) When Sonia tells him people laugh behind his back.
(b) When school officials can't pronounce his given name.
(c) When relatives in India tell him it's not an Indian name.
(d) When reading an issue of Readers Digest.

3. How does Ashima feel about their move to the suburbs?
(a) She is relieved to finally have a decent yard.
(b) She finds it more distressing than moving from Calcutta to America.
(c) She dislikes the house her husband insisted they rent.
(d) She wishes there were more people from India nearby.

4. What terrifies Ashima about having a child?
(a) The difficulty of getting her figure back afterwards.
(b) Caring for a child with an absent husband.
(c) Raising it in a place so far from home.
(d) The pain of childbirth.

5. Why is Ashima embarrassed to wear a hospital gown?
(a) She hates white.
(b) The back is open.
(c) It only comes to her knees.
(d) It's ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In India, is it necessary to come up with a name for a child immediately after birth?

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

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

4. What difference does Ashima notice in her days before and after Gogol's birth?

5. As a young boy, how does Gogol feel about his name?

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