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

2. What does Gogol ask Moushumi at the end of their first date?
(a) How soon can he see her again?
(b) Should they make their parents happy and see each other again?
(c) Is she as lonely as he is?
(d) Was the date the disaster each expected?

3. How do the Ganguli family friends react to the news of Ashoke's death?
(a) They take turns helping with household chores.
(b) They all respond with visits, calls, and cards.
(c) They tell the Ganguli family that they can now return to India.
(d) They are shocked and don't know what to say.

4. Who does Gogol meet on a train coming home from school during his freshman year in college?
(a) A fellow student from school, a girl he recognizes.
(b) A friend from childhood whom he barely remembers.
(c) A stranger who reminds him of his father.
(d) A woman who moves because she doesn't like immigrants.

5. As Ashoke waits while Ashima gives birth, who does he thank for his survival and this miracle of new life about to begin?
(a) God, he is a very religious man.
(b) The man who lent him the book that saved his life.
(c) All the people of his family who came before him.
(d) Gogol, the Russian writer who saved his life in the train wreck.