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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What embarrasses Gogol about the meal his mother has prepared for his and Maxine's visit?
(a) It's not the kind of food Maxine is used to.
(b) It's too spicy; Maxine doesn't like spicy food.
(c) There is too much food and it's too rich for the warm weather.
(d) His mother didn't care enough to prepare a nice meal.

3. On the plane, why is Gogol happy to sit apart from his parents?
(a) Because he thinks no one will know they are related to him.
(b) He isn't happy, he's secretly afraid.
(c) Because he enjoys being on his own.
(d) He's glad because Sonia irritates him with her questions.

4. What do the Gangulis do with their home while they are in India?
(a) Pay a company to check on it every so often.
(b) The sell it, figuring to buy another, nicer home when they return.
(c) Turn off the utilities and lock the doors.
(d) Rent it to an unmarried couple, students at the university.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashoke do that reminds Ashima of the time he visited her parents' home?

2. What did Ashoke do after the train wreck when he had nightmares at night and couldn't sleep?

3. Why isn't Ashima alarmed when Ashoke calls her in the evening when he is sick?

4. How does Gogol feel about his frequent visits to Maxine's home?

5. Why does Ashima make her own Christmas cards?

(see the answer key)

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