The Namesake Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 163 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Namesake Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 163 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ashoke remember when he and Ashima bring Gogol home?
(a) How beautiful Ashima had been when they first met.
(b) That he has a meeting and must soon leave for a while.
(c) That he'd not wanted children so soon.
(d) The conversation on the train before the train wreck.

2. How does Ashima feel about their move to the suburbs?
(a) She wishes there were more people from India nearby.
(b) She finds it more distressing than moving from Calcutta to America.
(c) She is relieved to finally have a decent yard.
(d) She dislikes the house her husband insisted they rent.

3. Why doesn't Gogol want to go to school when he begins Kindergarten?
(a) He wants to stay home and play.
(b) He doesn't want to be the only Indian at the school.
(c) He is afraid of the strange building.
(d) He has been told he will be called by a different name.

4. What makes Ashima's first outing with Gogol take longer than expected?
(a) Gogol cries and she must stop to calm him down.
(b) Friendly Americans interested in her baby.
(c) She is still tired and can't walk as quickly as expected.
(d) The pram is old and she's afraid it will break down.

5. Where do women in India go to have babies?
(a) Home to their family.
(b) They stay home and have help from their mother-in-law.
(c) The maternity ward in a hospital.
(d) An obstetrical clinic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ashoke do after the train wreck when he had nightmares at night and couldn't sleep?

2. What's the first thing that causes Ashima and Ashoke to suspect she's pregnant?

3. What does Gogol give his mother as a gift when his baby sister is born?

4. What about the house becomes one of Gogol's earliest memories?

5. How many people come to Sonia's rice ceremony when she's six months old?

(see the answer key)

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