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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will name Ashoke and Ashima's baby?
(a) They will ask an American because they want an American name.
(b) Ashima's grandmother.
(c) They have asked Ashoke's relatives in India to come up with a suitable name.
(d) Ashoke, because Indian fathers always name their children.

2. What place does Ashima recall while in labor?
(a) The lake she once visited as a child.
(b) The apartment she shares with her husband.
(c) Her childhood home in India.
(d) No place, she's totally involved in her present situation.

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. In what type of neighborhood do the Gangulis finally purchase a home?
(a) In an historic area where they will be steeped in tradition.
(b) In the country, where there are no neighbors to look down on them.
(c) An ordinary area where plastic wading pools are left out on the lawns.
(d) Where Ashoke can get to work quickly.

5. What does the nurse do when Ashoke and Ashima are first together with their child?
(a) She makes sure their wrist bands match.
(b) She tells them that a child is a fragile thing.
(c) She shows them how to change his diapers.
(d) She leaves them alone for a while.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashima try to make for a midnight snack?

2. What two kinds of parties does Gogol have for his fourteenth birthday?

3. Why does Gogol's father take him to his first day of kindergarten?

4. What does the Ganguli family do in the beginning of their life in their new home, in the evenings?

5. What does Gogol think when his parents tell him they are going to India for eight months?

(see the answer key)

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