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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 remember when he and Ashima bring Gogol home?
(a) How beautiful Ashima had been when they first met.
(b) The conversation on the train before the train wreck.
(c) That he'd not wanted children so soon.
(d) That he has a meeting and must soon leave for a while.

2. After Gogol gives his reasons for changing his name, how do his parents respond?
(a) They feel even more insulted on behalf of Indians everywhere.
(b) They are afraid that Gogol is drifting farther and farther from them.
(c) They tell him in America anything is possible and to do as he wishes.
(d) They agree that the name Gogol only causes problems.

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

4. What time of day was the train wreck?
(a) At two-thirty in the morning, the middle of the night actually.
(b) In the evening, the engineer was blinded by the setting sun.
(c) In the morning, when animals crossed the tracks looking for water.
(d) At noon, it happened when the depot was most crowded.

5. How do Gogol and his friends celebrate his fourteenth birthday party?
(a) They go to a pizza parlor where they play video games.
(b) They have pizzas and watched a baseball game on TV.
(c) They got to a baseball game and have pizza afterwards.
(d) They go swimming at a nearby pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do women in India go to have babies?

2. As Ashoke waits while Ashima gives birth, who does he thank for his survival and this miracle of new life about to begin?

3. After the train wreck, what did Ashoke do which he believes saved his life?

4. Who does Gogol meet on a train coming home from school during his freshman year in college?

5. What does Ashima tell Ashoke as soon as they bring their baby home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gogol react to the gifts he receives at his fourteenth birthday party?

2. What job is Ashoke offered after finishing his college studies?

3. Why aren't Ashoke and Ashima concerned that they don't have a name picked out before the birth of their child?

4. What happens when Gogol's train coming home from college is late?

5. What does Ashima think about while in labor?

6. Why doesn't Gogol look forward to his fourteenth birthday party?

7. Why doesn't the school call Gogol by the name Nikhil?

8. What do the Gangulis do differently when naming their daughter Sonali than they did when Gogol was born?

9. What happens when Gogol takes an English class in high school?

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

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