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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gogol remember in the days after his first date with Moushumi?
(a) How she'd finished his sentences for him.
(b) That he doesn't want to marry someone with a similar background to his.
(c) Things about her as a child that he'd forgotten.
(d) The way her hair blows in the wind.

2. Who or what does Gogol fall in love with when he falls in love with Maxine?
(a) Her taste in houses because he's an architect.
(b) Her entire family and their lifestyle.
(c) Her dog Silas.
(d) Her friends because they are so like Maxine.

3. What does a waiter think when he sees Gogol and Moushumi together?
(a) That they must share a similar heritage.
(b) That they must be in love.
(c) That they seem unhappy.
(d) That they are brother and sister.

4. How does Ashima learn about Maxine?
(a) Gogol tells her he's going on vacation to Maxine's New Hampshire home.
(b) Maxine invites her to a party.
(c) Ashima asks Gogol's friends.
(d) She corners Gogol and forces him to tell her.

5. What does the Ratliff's move to New Hampshire every year remind Gogol of?
(a) A well-organized military campaign.
(b) A couple of kids sneaking away for a picnic.
(c) A three-ring circus.
(d) His family's preparations for a trip to Calcutta.

6. Who does Ashima try to contact first after learning of Ashoke's death?
(a) Gogol.
(b) Sonia.
(c) Maxine.
(d) Her family in India.

7. What does Moushumi do with Dimitri's resume?
(a) She makes a Xerox copy of it.
(b) She takes it home to show Gogol.
(c) She tears it into a hundred tiny pieces.
(d) She gives it to a professor with a strong recommendation.

8. What does the Ganguli family do on the eleventh day after Ashoke's death?
(a) They dab themselves with mud and ashes for mourning.
(b) They ask them if there is anything of Ashoke's that they can use.
(c) They invite friends to mark the end of the mourning period.
(d) They return to India with Ashoke's ashes.

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

10. Why does Ashima insist Gogol come home for a visit?
(a) Because she hasn't seen him and misses him.
(b) Because he's drifting farther and farther away from his roots.
(c) Because Ashoke is leaving for a project in Ohio.
(d) Because she wants him to meet Sonia's new boyfriend.

11. What book does Moushumi look for that was inscribed for her by Dimitri?
(a) Gone With the Wind.
(b) Shakespeare's poems.
(c) The Red and the Black.
(d) A volume of love poems.

12. What do Moushumi's friends decide about names?
(a) They wish their culture had as beautiful names as Indian ones.
(b) They will wait until the child is born and then decide.
(c) There is no perfect name.
(d) No matter what the name, it eventually seems to suit.

13. How does Gogol know that his mother is nervous about meeting Maxine?
(a) She can't remember Maxine's name.
(b) She mumbles, something she only does when she's nervous.
(c) She burns lunch.
(d) She's wearing makeup and a good sari.

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

15. Where did Moushumi live while growing up?
(a) In India and America.
(b) They traveled the world during her childhood.
(c) In England and America.
(d) They always lived in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ashima feel about Gogol's living with Maxine?

2. What does Gogol do as soon as he gets the news of his father's death?

3. What kind of part-time job does Ashima get in chapter 7?

4. Why can't Ashima get hold of Gogol to tell him of his father's death?

5. What kind of daily routine do Gogol and Maxine follow at the summer home in New Hampshire?

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