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

2. What did Ashima do upon first meeting Ashoke when he visited her family home in India?
(a) She impulsively stepped into the strange American shoes at the door.
(b) She changed into her most beautiful sari before meeting him.
(c) She asked him about his travels, especially about America.
(d) She said she didn't want to meet anyone from America.

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

4. What two kinds of names do children in India usually receive?
(a) Names to be spoken and names never to be said out loud.
(b) Family names and nicknames.
(c) Formal names and informal names.
(d) Pet names and good names.

5. What does Gogol do after window shopping with Moushumi?
(a) He goes to a bar and has a quick drink.
(b) He rushes home because he has work that's waiting.
(c) He buys a hat for her that she'd admired.
(d) He drops her off at her apartment then goes home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Moushumi and Gogol do during their free time after they are husband and wife?

2. How many people come to Sonia's rice ceremony when she's six months old?

3. Why does Gogol tell the judge he's changing his name?

4. Who wants to introduce Gogol to a girl he used to know as a child?

5. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?

(see the answer key)

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