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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 Ashima react to Gogol's time in pre-school?
(a) She wishes she could learn alongside him.
(b) She is despondent, unused to being alone all over again.
(c) She finds herself at long last with time for herself.
(d) She is concerned that he will forget his Indian heritage.

2. Who will name Ashoke and Ashima's baby?
(a) They will ask an American because they want an American name.
(b) Ashoke, because Indian fathers always name their children.
(c) Ashima's grandmother.
(d) They have asked Ashoke's relatives in India to come up with a suitable name.

3. What does Gogol's father say after giving him a special gift for his fourteenth birthday?
(a) He hopes Gogol uses it wisely.
(b) Nothing because he sees Gogol has ignored similar gifts.
(c) He hopes Gogol doesn't forget his Indian heritage.
(d) He hopes Gogol likes it because it was rather expensive.

4. What does Gogol hate about explaining his name to people?
(a) That his parents didn't have a name ready when he was born.
(b) How to pronounce it correctly.
(c) That it's not Indian and is absurd and obscure.
(d) That many people in India have pet names when children.

5. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?
(a) The lake she once visited as a child.
(b) The apartment she shares with her husband.
(c) No place, she's totally involved in her present situation.
(d) Her childhood home in India.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the judge ask Gogol when he goes to court to change his name?

3. When does the idea to change his name first occur to Gogol?

4. On the plane, why is Gogol happy to sit apart from his parents?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who befriends Ashima at the hospital and how?

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

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

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

8. How do Ashima and Ashoke feel about Ruth when they learn of their son's girlfriend?

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

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

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