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

2. What was Ashima's initial reaction to her first home in America?
(a) She was delighted with the sunny, spacious rooms.
(b) She didn't like the neighbors.
(c) It was not at all what she had expected.
(d) It was smaller than Ashoke had described.

3. What does Ashima do immediately after she gives birth to Gogol?
(a) She gives thanks for a healthy child.
(b) She cries from the pain.
(c) She begins to shiver profoundly.
(d) She asks the nurse to give her child to her immediately.

4. What memory of the train wreck still haunts Ashima, even after his marriage and starting a new life in America?
(a) The twisted, battered, capsized bogies of the train.
(b) The still sky above such a terrible scene.
(c) The terrible silence after that first, wrenching crash.
(d) The cries of the people trapped inside.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else visits the baby Gogol in the hospital?

2. What did Ashoke do after the train wreck when he had nightmares at night and couldn't sleep?

3. What did Ashima do upon first meeting Ashoke when he visited her family home in India?

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

5. What's the first thing that causes Ashima and Ashoke to suspect she's pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Ashima think about while in labor?

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

10. Why is Ashima afraid while in labor?

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