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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the breakup between Gogol/Nakhil and Ruth happen?
(a) They have a huge fight and Gogol walks out on her.
(b) Gogol's friends tell him Ruth isn't right for him.
(c) Ruth takes a class in England and that ends the affair.
(d) Ruth's parents don't like her seeing an Indian so she ends it.

4. What kind of name does Ashoke consider Gogol to be when he chooses it for his son?
(a) A pet name.
(b) A name that will look good on an American letterhead.
(c) He's too confused to think about names and chooses the first one that comes to mind.
(d) A name his child should be proud to carry.

5. Why does Gogol/Nakhid take a class in Indian novels written in English?
(a) He feels it might answer questions about his heritage.
(b) One of the presenters is a cousin from India whom he has never met.
(c) It filled a void in his class schedule.
(d) He feels he's somewhat of an expert on the subject.

6. What was Ashoke doing the day he almost died?
(a) He was reading a book.
(b) He was helping his parents clean the yard.
(c) He was crossing a street just like every other day.
(d) He was climbing a mountain.

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

8. How do Gogol and his friends celebrate his fourteenth birthday party?
(a) They go to a pizza parlor where they play video games.
(b) They got to a baseball game and have pizza afterwards.
(c) They go swimming at a nearby pool.
(d) They have pizzas and watched a baseball game on TV.

9. What does Gogol's father give him on his fourteenth birthday?
(a) An expensive leather jacket.
(b) The baseball bat Gogol truly wanted.
(c) A gift certificate, because he doen't know what Gogol wants.
(d) A book of short stories by Nikoli Gogol.

10. When does the idea to change his name first occur to Gogol?
(a) When school officials can't pronounce his given name.
(b) When Sonia tells him people laugh behind his back.
(c) When reading an issue of Readers Digest.
(d) When relatives in India tell him it's not an Indian name.

11. 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) It doesn't have anything to do with his survival.
(d) He is reading it and, thus, is in a safe place during the train wreck.

12. Where does Gogol first begin to introduce himself to people as Nikhil?
(a) At the bank where he gets a school loan.
(b) His first day of school in New Haven.
(c) At the park where a little boy asks his name.
(d) As soon as he gets home he introduces his new self to his family.

13. How does Gogol feel after leaving the courthouse with a changed name?
(a) He is concerned that his family will no longer accept him.
(b) He wonders if he did the right thing.
(c) He wonders if he now looks more like an American.
(d) He wants to tell passersby that his name is Nikhil.

14. What two kinds of parties does Gogol have for his fourteenth birthday?
(a) One at home and one at a pizza parlor.
(b) One on his actual birthday, another on the weekend when it's convenient.
(c) One with family and one with school friends.
(d) One with friends from school and one with Indian friends of his family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ashoke's career advance in Chapter 3?

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

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

4. What kind of people are Ashima's neighbors in her first home in America?

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

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