1. What does the Ganguli family do in the beginning of their life in their new home, in the evenings?
(a) They sit outside and enjoy the luxury of a real yard.
(b) They work on their English language skills.
(c) They watch American programs on their television.
(d) They go for drives and explore their new environs bit by bit.

2. How does a book save Ashoke's life?
(a) It stops a piece of flying metal that could have killed him.
(b) The book is like a warning and he avoids disaster.
(c) He is reading it and, thus, is in a safe place during the train wreck.
(d) It doesn't have anything to do with his survival.

3. What memory of the train wreck still haunts Ashima, even after his marriage and starting a new life in America?
(a) The terrible silence after that first, wrenching crash.
(b) The cries of the people trapped inside.
(c) The still sky above such a terrible scene.
(d) The twisted, battered, capsized bogies of the train.

4. Who else visits the baby Gogol in the hospital?
(a) Neighbors of the Gangulis.
(b) A couple the Gangulis met and a professor friend of Ashoke.
(c) Ashoke's fellow students from college.
(d) No one, they don't know anyone in America yet.

5. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?
(a) A sunny, comfortable home shared by three immigrant families.
(b) A fully furnished apartment near Harvard and MIT.
(c) An apartment in the slums, surrounded by noisy neighbors.
(d) A two-story Georgian home the Ganguli family purchased.