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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 is the one complication about Gogol/Nikhil's new name?
(a) He only wishes he'd done it years earlier.
(b) He forgets and signs his old name every so often.
(c) He can't remember to respond to his new name.
(d) He doesn't feel like a Nikhil.

2. On the plane, why is Gogol happy to sit apart from his parents?
(a) He's glad because Sonia irritates him with her questions.
(b) Because he thinks no one will know they are related to him.
(c) Because he enjoys being on his own.
(d) He isn't happy, he's secretly afraid.

3. How Gogol/Nikhil feel about his new name once a few weeks have passed?
(a) He doesn't give it a second thought.
(b) He feels like a new and different person.
(c) He's confused and doesn't know why.
(d) He wishes he'd never done it.

4. What does Gogol decide to do a few weeks after moving away from his family and starting college?
(a) He decides to change his name legally.
(b) He goes a little wild and ends up drunk.
(c) He moves back home because he's homesick and he commutes.
(d) Nothing, he finally accepts his name as a part of him.

5. How does Ashoke's career advance in Chapter 3?
(a) He is asked to join a government research project.
(b) He is promoted over an American teacher.
(c) He is offered a post in California and accepts.
(d) He is hired as assistant professor of electrical engineering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gogol do at his birthday party with friends that he'd never done before?

2. How do Gogol's parents explain his lack of an alternative identity to friends in India?

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

4. Why is the principal confused about Gogol's name?

5. What memory of the train wreck still haunts Ashima, even after his marriage and starting a new life in America?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the school call Gogol by the name Nikhil?

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