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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 learn that her husband has died?
(a) Sonia learns first and tells her mother.
(b) The hospital calls and says he has expired.
(c) She calls the hospital and insists on speaking with Ashoke.
(d) Gogol tells her as gently as he knows how.

2. How does Gogol feel about his frequent visits to Maxine's home?
(a) He feels like they are only pretending to like him.
(b) He feels like he doesn't belong and never will.
(c) He is uncomfortable with their overly friendly attitude towards him.
(d) He feels like he's effortlessly incorporated into their lives.

3. How had Moushumi become engaged before meeting Gogol?
(a) She'd asked her lover to marry her and he'd accepted.
(b) Graham had gotten on his knees and proposed just like in the movies.
(c) They'd realized they couldn't continue on as they were doing and just decided to marry.
(d) Her parents arranged the marriage.

4. How does Gogol receive news of his father's death?
(a) He calls his mother to chat minutes after she received the news.
(b) Maxine's parents speak with Ashima then tell him.
(c) The police are dispatched because he can't be found.
(d) His sister Sonia calls him at Maxine's home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How has Dimitri changed since Moushumi first met him?

3. Who wants to introduce Gogol to a girl he used to know as a child?

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

5. Why does Ashima make her own Christmas cards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of wedding do Gogol and Moushumi have?

2. What call does Ashima get while working on the Christmas cards?

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

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

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

6. Why does Ashima not fight her childrens' desires to live far away?

7. What does Gogol do after graduating from college?

8. What does Gogol do for Moushumi's Christmas gift?

9. What does Gogol do when he learns of his father's death?

10. What does Moushumi do while married to Gogol and feeling discontented with life?

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