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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 was the nickname that Dimitri gave Moushumi?
(a) Mouse
(b) Half Pint
(c) Gorgeous
(d) Dark Lady

2. How is the Ratliff's house in New Hampshire different from the one in New York City?
(a) It's not, it's very similar, showing their taste in every piece of furniture.
(b) The windows are always open, unlike in New York City.
(c) It's the complete opposite, dark, musty and full of primitive furniture.
(d) It's a typical summer home with no personality at all.

3. What do most of their Indian friends give the couple as wedding presents?
(a) A wide assortment of upscale gifts.
(b) Incense and other reminders of their Indian heritage.
(c) Useful household items.
(d) Gifts of money.

4. How does Ashima feel about Gogol's living with Maxine?
(a) She refuses to admit he's living with a woman he's not married to.
(b) She doesn't like it but knows she must accept it.
(c) She's glad because soon Gogol and Maxine will marry.
(d) She constantly tells him he must not live with her.

5. What does Ashoke tell Ashima is the reason he's in the hospital?
(a) He has a stomach ache, he thinks he ate some bad chicken.
(b) He fell and his coworkers rushed him to the hospital.
(c) He has been coughing a lot and thinks it might be pneumonia.
(d) He has unexplained leg cramps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Moushumi's friends decide about names?

2. How does Maxine treat Gogol's parents when they visit on their way to New Hampshire?

3. What does the Ratliff's move to New Hampshire every year remind Gogol of?

4. Why isn't Ashima alarmed when Ashoke calls her in the evening when he is sick?

5. What book does Moushumi look for that was inscribed for her by Dimitri?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Gogol and Moushumi have in common when they first meet?

2. Do Gogol and Mushumi marry immediately after meeting?

3. After Gogol breaks off his relationship with Maxine, who does his mother introduce him to?

4. What happens the day after Gogol meets a girl named Maxine?

5. How does Gogol finally learn about his father's death?

6. What does Ashima do by herself with her husband in Ohio?

7. When bothers Gogol after he and Moushumi return to New York after a trip to Paris?

8. How do Gogol and Mushumi react to one another after all this time?

9. Why doesn't Gogol know immediately of his father's death?

10. How does Gogol plan to present Moushumi with the tickets?

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