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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ashima's family keep in touch with her after Gogol's birth?
(a) They communicate sporadically.
(b) They write letters, once as many as three a week.
(c) They call every evening at six, right after dinner.
(d) They exchange long letters about once a month.

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

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

4. How does Ashoke's career advance in Chapter 3?
(a) He is asked to join a government research project.
(b) He is hired as assistant professor of electrical engineering.
(c) He is offered a post in California and accepts.
(d) He is promoted over an American teacher.

5. How does Ashima feel about Gogol having a girlfriend?
(a) She is quietly concerned and hopeful.
(b) She sees it as fate that eventually he will marry and leave her.
(c) She hopes he doesn't find a girlfriend because then he won't come home.
(d) She hopes he can find happiness as great as hers was.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will name Ashoke and Ashima's baby?

2. What do the Gangulis do with their home while they are in India?

3. What about New York City interests Gogol's parents?

4. What does Ashima try to make for a midnight snack?

5. What does Gogol ask Moushumi at the end of their first date?

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