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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. How does the breakup between Gogol/Nakhil and Ruth happen?
(a) Ruth takes a class in England and that ends the affair.
(b) They have a huge fight and Gogol walks out on her.
(c) Gogol's friends tell him Ruth isn't right for him.
(d) Ruth's parents don't like her seeing an Indian so she ends it.

2. What about the house becomes one of Gogol's earliest memories?
(a) Playing in the dirt because there is no yard yet.
(b) His parents discussing how to furnish their new home.
(c) The movement of the sun's rays across his bedroom floor.
(d) The sound of the kids next door playing baseball.

3. What does the judge ask Gogol when he goes to court to change his name?
(a) What problems his name has caused him.
(b) Whether his family agrees.
(c) Whether he is a felon hiding from the law.
(d) What is the reason for wishing to change his name.

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

5. Why is the principal confused about Gogol's name?
(a) She can't understand Ashoke's Indian accent.
(b) The birth certificate and Gogol's father state different names for him.
(c) She can't figure out how to pronounce the unfamiliar name.
(d) She doesn't understand about Indian pet names.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a book save Ashoke's life?

2. Why doesn't the Ganguli baby get the name it was supposed to get before leaving the hospital?

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

4. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?

5. Why does Gogol's father take him to his first day of kindergarten?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Gogol decide to do when he turns eighteen?

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

5. What happens when Gogol wants to see his girlfriend, Ruth, over the Christmas holidays?

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

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

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

9. What does Ashima think about while in labor?

10. What do the Ganguli family do during Ashoke's sabbatical?

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