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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the principal finally end up registering Gogol by his pet name?
(a) She feels Gogol is closer to an American name than Nikhil.
(b) She says the name on his birth certificate is his proper name.
(c) She doesn't understand Indian culture.
(d) He doesn't want to be called by any other name.

3. Why does Gogol's father take him to his first day of kindergarten?
(a) It's a tradition in India for a father to do this.
(b) Ashima gets sick riding in a car so Ashoke must take him.
(c) Ashima is overcome by tears and can't bring him herself.
(d) Gogol asks his father to bring him.

4. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?
(a) A sunny, comfortable home shared by three immigrant families.
(b) An apartment in the slums, surrounded by noisy neighbors.
(c) A two-story Georgian home the Ganguli family purchased.
(d) A fully furnished apartment near Harvard and MIT.

5. What does Gogol decide to do a few weeks after moving away from his family and starting college?
(a) He decides to change his name legally.
(b) He moves back home because he's homesick and he commutes.
(c) He goes a little wild and ends up drunk.
(d) Nothing, he finally accepts his name as a part of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gogol's father say after giving him a special gift for his fourteenth birthday?

2. What kind of people are Ashima's neighbors in her first home in America?

3. What happens when Gogol returns to school during his freshman year after meeting Ruth over the weekend?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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