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

2. In India, is it necessary to come up with a name for a child immediately after birth?
(a) No, because Indians believe names can wait.
(b) Yes, because a name is extrememely important in India.
(c) Yes, because announcements cannot be sent out until the child has a name.
(d) Only if the child is in poor health and may not live long.

3. In what type of neighborhood do the Gangulis finally purchase a home?
(a) In the country, where there are no neighbors to look down on them.
(b) An ordinary area where plastic wading pools are left out on the lawns.
(c) In an historic area where they will be steeped in tradition.
(d) Where Ashoke can get to work quickly.

4. How do Gogol and his friends celebrate his fourteenth birthday party?
(a) They go to a pizza parlor where they play video games.
(b) They go swimming at a nearby pool.
(c) They got to a baseball game and have pizza afterwards.
(d) They have pizzas and watched a baseball game on TV.

5. What does Ashoke remember when he and Ashima bring Gogol home?
(a) The conversation on the train before the train wreck.
(b) That he has a meeting and must soon leave for a while.
(c) How beautiful Ashima had been when they first met.
(d) That he'd not wanted children so soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do guests say about Sonia at the rice ceremony?

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

3. What kind of people are Ashima's neighbors in her first home in America?

4. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?

5. What does Ashima tell Ashoke as soon as they bring their baby home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. Why doesn't the school call Gogol by the name Nikhil?

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

8. At college after changing his name, how does Gogol react to being called by his new name?

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

10. Who befriends Ashima at the hospital and how?

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