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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 Gogol think when his parents tell him they are going to India for eight months?
(a) That they are joking.
(b) That they are homesick.
(c) That they think he's become too American.
(d) That they are doing it only to acquaint him and Sonia with India.

2. What happens to Ashoke and Ashima within a decade of moving to America?
(a) They seldom know what's going on with their families in India.
(b) They become true Americans.
(c) They both become orphans.
(d) They lose touch with their families in India.

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

4. What happens when Gogol returns to school during his freshman year after meeting Ruth over the weekend?
(a) Gogol and Ruth start seeing each other.
(b) Gogol feels suffocated at school and asks to come home.
(c) Gogol and Ruth have an argument.
(d) Some of Gogol's friends set him up with a girl they know.

5. What two kinds of names do children in India usually receive?
(a) Pet names and good names.
(b) Names to be spoken and names never to be said out loud.
(c) Formal names and informal names.
(d) Family names and nicknames.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Gogol want to go to school when he begins Kindergarten?

3. Why is Ashima embarrassed to wear a hospital gown?

4. What does Ashima try to make for a midnight snack?

5. What about the house becomes one of Gogol's earliest memories?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Gogol and Sonia while the family are sightseeing in India?

3. What did Ashoke swear to do during his long recovery from the injuries he received during a train wreck when he was a young man?

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

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

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

7. What does Ashima think of the name Gogol that is chosen by her husband for their baby?

8. Why does Ashoke choose the name Nikhil for Gogol when he begins school?

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

10. Why doesn't Ashima's grandmother name their grandchild as Ashima and Ashoke requested?

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