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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ashoke do while pacing in the mens' waiting room at the hospital?
(a) He tries to calm down the other expectant fathers.
(b) He drags his fingers through his hair.
(c) He carries flowers he has bought for Ashima.
(d) He reads the Globe.

2. What kind of gifts does Gogol get at his second birthday party?
(a) Trading cards for his collection.
(b) Baseballs, footballs and soccer balls.
(c) Mementos of India.
(d) Dictionaries, calculators, sweaters, and pens.

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

4. What does Gogol hate about explaining his name to people?
(a) That his parents didn't have a name ready when he was born.
(b) How to pronounce it correctly.
(c) That it's not Indian and is absurd and obscure.
(d) That many people in India have pet names when children.

5. What do guests say about Sonia at the rice ceremony?
(a) She doesn't want to know her future.
(b) She'll always live between two cultures.
(c) She'll be important when she grows up.
(d) She is the true American.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ashima's family keep in touch with her after Gogol's birth?

2. What does Gogol do with the book his father gives him for his fourteenth birthday?

3. Why does the principal finally end up registering Gogol by his pet name?

4. What kind of name does Ashoke consider Gogol to be when he chooses it for his son?

5. What was Ashoke doing the day he almost died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ashoke think about while Ashima is in labor?

2. What does Ashoke do for Gogol's fourteenth birthday?

3. What type of home do the Gangulis settle down in to raise their family?

4. Why don't Ashima and Ashoke have a name picked out for their baby?

5. When Gogol is six, what event changes in the Ganguli family?

6. Who befriends Ashima at the hospital and how?

7. What does Ashima think about while in labor?

8. How are the Ganguli family plans changed while preparing for a visit to India when Gogol is a year old?

9. What is Ashima doing when her water breaks?

10. Why is Ashima afraid while in labor?

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