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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moushumi wear for her wedding?
(a) A white flowing wedding dress.
(b) A dress chosen for her by her family as tradition decrees.
(c) A traditional Indian sari.
(d) She wears a suit because she must return to work shortly.

2. Who wants to introduce Gogol to a girl he used to know as a child?
(a) His mother Ashima.
(b) A neighbor who knew them both as a child.
(c) His coworkers who met her recently at a party.
(d) His sister Sonia.

3. When does the idea to change his name first occur to Gogol?
(a) When Sonia tells him people laugh behind his back.
(b) When relatives in India tell him it's not an Indian name.
(c) When school officials can't pronounce his given name.
(d) When reading an issue of Readers Digest.

4. How does a book save Ashoke's life?
(a) It stops a piece of flying metal that could have killed him.
(b) The book is like a warning and he avoids disaster.
(c) He is reading it and, thus, is in a safe place during the train wreck.
(d) It doesn't have anything to do with his survival.

5. How does Ashima react to Gogol's time in pre-school?
(a) She finds herself at long last with time for herself.
(b) She is despondent, unused to being alone all over again.
(c) She wishes she could learn alongside him.
(d) She is concerned that he will forget his Indian heritage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashima do immediately after she gives birth to Gogol?

2. What do Moushumi's friends decide about names?

3. How does Ashoke's career advance in Chapter 3?

4. Where did Moushumi live while growing up?

5. How does conversation at a party attended by Gogol and Moushumi at the home of a friend come around to the subject of names?

(see the answer key)

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