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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. As Ashoke waits while Ashima gives birth, who does he thank for his survival and this miracle of new life about to begin?
(a) All the people of his family who came before him.
(b) Gogol, the Russian writer who saved his life in the train wreck.
(c) God, he is a very religious man.
(d) The man who lent him the book that saved his life.
2. What terrifies Ashima about having a child?
(a) Caring for a child with an absent husband.
(b) The difficulty of getting her figure back afterwards.
(c) The pain of childbirth.
(d) Raising it in a place so far from home.
3. Who will name Ashoke and Ashima's baby?
(a) They have asked Ashoke's relatives in India to come up with a suitable name.
(b) They will ask an American because they want an American name.
(c) Ashima's grandmother.
(d) Ashoke, because Indian fathers always name their children.
4. After the train wreck, what did Ashoke do which he believes saved his life?
(a) He raised his hand and rescuers saw it.
(b) He called out and someone heard his cry.
(c) He stopped the flow of blood that otherwise would have killed him.
(d) He climbed out of the wreckage and ran to safety.
5. What does Ashoke remember when he and Ashima bring Gogol home?
(a) That he'd not wanted children so soon.
(b) The conversation on the train before the train wreck.
(c) How beautiful Ashima had been when they first met.
(d) That he has a meeting and must soon leave for a while.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Ashima's initial reaction to her first home in America?
2. What makes Ashima's first outing with Gogol take longer than expected?
3. What does the man who lends Ashoke the book on the train tell him that he should do?
4. Why doesn't the Ganguli baby get the name it was supposed to get before leaving the hospital?
5. What does Ashoke do while pacing in the mens' waiting room at the hospital?
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