The Namesake Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

The Namesake Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 163 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the judge ask Gogol when he goes to court to change his name?
(a) Whether he is a felon hiding from the law.
(b) Whether his family agrees.
(c) What problems his name has caused him.
(d) What is the reason for wishing to change his name.

3. Why does the principal finally end up registering Gogol by his pet name?
(a) She doesn't understand Indian culture.
(b) She says the name on his birth certificate is his proper name.
(c) She feels Gogol is closer to an American name than Nikhil.
(d) He doesn't want to be called by any other name.

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

5. What do guests say about Sonia at the rice ceremony?
(a) She'll always live between two cultures.
(b) She'll be important when she grows up.
(c) She doesn't want to know her future.
(d) She is the true American.

6. How does a book save Ashoke's life?
(a) He is reading it and, thus, is in a safe place during the train wreck.
(b) It doesn't have anything to do with his survival.
(c) The book is like a warning and he avoids disaster.
(d) It stops a piece of flying metal that could have killed him.

7. As Ashoke waits while Ashima gives birth, who does he thank for his survival and this miracle of new life about to begin?
(a) God, he is a very religious man.
(b) Gogol, the Russian writer who saved his life in the train wreck.
(c) The man who lent him the book that saved his life.
(d) All the people of his family who came before him.

8. What does Ashoke do that reminds Ashima of the time he visited her parents' home?
(a) He tells her how beautiful she is when she dresses up for him.
(b) He takes his shoes off, as is customary in India.
(c) He goes out of his way to learn American ways and tell her about them.
(d) He polishes his shoes fastidiously.

9. What time of day was the train wreck?
(a) In the morning, when animals crossed the tracks looking for water.
(b) At two-thirty in the morning, the middle of the night actually.
(c) In the evening, the engineer was blinded by the setting sun.
(d) At noon, it happened when the depot was most crowded.

10. What does the Ganguli family do in the beginning of their life in their new home, in the evenings?
(a) They sit outside and enjoy the luxury of a real yard.
(b) They go for drives and explore their new environs bit by bit.
(c) They work on their English language skills.
(d) They watch American programs on their television.

11. How does Ashima react to Gogol's time in pre-school?
(a) She wishes she could learn alongside him.
(b) She is concerned that he will forget his Indian heritage.
(c) She finds herself at long last with time for herself.
(d) She is despondent, unused to being alone all over again.

12. What terrifies Ashima about having a child?
(a) Raising it in a place so far from home.
(b) Caring for a child with an absent husband.
(c) The difficulty of getting her figure back afterwards.
(d) The pain of childbirth.

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

14. What does Gogol decide to do a few weeks after moving away from his family and starting college?
(a) He decides to change his name legally.
(b) Nothing, he finally accepts his name as a part of him.
(c) He moves back home because he's homesick and he commutes.
(d) He goes a little wild and ends up drunk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Gogol/Nakhil's parents think about his relationship with Ruth?

2. What appearance does the Ganguli home present to a casual observer?

3. How does Gogol feel after leaving the courthouse with a changed name?

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

5. What does Gogol do with the book his father gives him for his fourteenth birthday?

(see the answer keys)

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