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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What difference does Ashima notice in her days before and after Gogol's birth?
(a) Now she has something to occupy her time.
(b) Now she can't seem to organize her days.
(c) Now friends stop by at all hours to see Gogol.
(d) Now she isn't the center of attention when Ashoke is home.

2. Why doesn't the Ganguli baby get the name it was supposed to get before leaving the hospital?
(a) The grandmother's letter never arrived.
(b) Indian babies are never named so early in life.
(c) Ashoke and Ashima couldn't agree on a name.
(d) There was a mixup on the birth certificate.

3. What is the one complication about Gogol/Nikhil's new name?
(a) He forgets and signs his old name every so often.
(b) He doesn't feel like a Nikhil.
(c) He only wishes he'd done it years earlier.
(d) He can't remember to respond to his new name.

4. What did Ashima do upon first meeting Ashoke when he visited her family home in India?
(a) She asked him about his travels, especially about America.
(b) She impulsively stepped into the strange American shoes at the door.
(c) She changed into her most beautiful sari before meeting him.
(d) She said she didn't want to meet anyone from America.

5. What does Ashoke do while pacing in the mens' waiting room at the hospital?
(a) He carries flowers he has bought for Ashima.
(b) He tries to calm down the other expectant fathers.
(c) He reads the Globe.
(d) He drags his fingers through his hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are there many children about Gogol''s age at his second birthday party?

2. Who does Gogol meet on a train coming home from school during his freshman year in college?

3. How does Gogol/Nakhil feel when people who used to call him Gogol use his new name?

4. What do the Gangulis do with their home while they are in India?

5. Why doesn't Ashoke explain how Gogol came about his name when he gives him the book by Nikoli Gogol?

(see the answer key)

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