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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Ashima about Sonia as she grows up?
(a) She fears she'll forget her Indian heritage.
(b) She fears she'll color a streak in her hair.
(c) She hates the clothes she wears.
(d) She has no real concerns, she's pleased with her daughter.

2. What does Ashima try to make for a midnight snack?
(a) A concoction sold for pennies in Calcutta
(b) Pickles, because she's pregnant
(c) Rice Krispies bars
(d) Ice cream

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

4. How does Gogol/Nakhil feel when people who used to call him Gogol use his new name?
(a) He wonders how they can keep his names straight.
(b) He wishes they'd still call him Gogol, he's used to it.
(c) He is pleased that they understand how important it is to him.
(d) He finds it startling.

5. Why doesn't the Ganguli baby get the name it was supposed to get before leaving the hospital?
(a) Ashoke and Ashima couldn't agree on a name.
(b) The grandmother's letter never arrived.
(c) Indian babies are never named so early in life.
(d) There was a mixup on the birth certificate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What error in speech does Ashima make when talking with the nurse?

2. What does Gogol give his mother as a gift when his baby sister is born?

3. How do Gogol and his friends celebrate his fourteenth birthday party?

4. After Gogol gives his reasons for changing his name, how do his parents respond?

5. What does the Ganguli family do in the beginning of their life in their new home, in the evenings?

(see the answer key)

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