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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of their Indian friends give the couple as wedding presents?

2. What does Moushumi tell friends her name means?

3. What does the Ganguli family do on the eleventh day after Ashoke's death?

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

5. What do Moushumi and Gogol do during their free time after they are husband and wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the Ratliffs do for Gogol in New Hampshire?

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

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

5. Why does Gogol agree to visit his family when he'd rather go to New Hampshire with Maxine's family?

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

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

8. Do Gogol and Mushumi marry immediately after meeting?

9. What bothers Gogol when he goes to Paris with Moushumi when she lectures there?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The anger of second-generation immigrants who feel they are treated as second-class citizens is a theme in many novels. In this novel, the author uses the second-generation Indian immigrant Moushumi as an example of this anger. What happens in the novel that she sees as slights to her Indian heritage? How do these imagined slights affect her? How does her resulting anger affect her marriage to Gogol? Cite examples from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How is the marriage of Ashim and Ashoke Ganguli different from most American marriages? Cite examples to support your answer. Discuss some advantages or disadvantages of each kind of marriage as described in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

The author uses unexpected events to change the direction of the story. One such event is Ashoke's death, but there are others. Cite at least three other examples of other such events and tell how they change the direction of the plot.

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