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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Why is the principal confused about Gogol's name?
(a) The birth certificate and Gogol's father state different names for him.
(b) She can't understand Ashoke's Indian accent.
(c) She can't figure out how to pronounce the unfamiliar name.
(d) She doesn't understand about Indian pet names.

4. What does Gogol do with the book his father gives him for his fourteenth birthday?
(a) He loses it almost immediately.
(b) He sets it aside to read later when he has more time.
(c) He leafs through the book to see what it's about.
(d) He shuts the book and puts it on a shelf, unread.

5. What does Ashima tell Ashoke as soon as they bring their baby home?
(a) She tells him they are starting on a new journey in life.
(b) She says she can't do this.
(c) She rebukes him for not having done the dishes.
(d) She says nothing; she is tired and needs her sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashoke do that reminds Ashima of the time he visited her parents' home?

2. What kind of home does Gogol live in as an infant?

3. What difference does Ashima notice in her days before and after Gogol's birth?

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

5. How do Gogol and his friends celebrate his fourteenth birthday party?

(see the answer key)

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