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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What changes about the planned visit to India when Gogol is about a year old?
(a) Gogol gets sick and is in the hospital for most of the visit.
(b) Ashoke's schedule necessitates cancelling the trip.
(c) Another family from India joins them for the trip.
(d) Ashima's father dies, necessitating her going early.

4. What does Ashima do immediately after she gives birth to Gogol?
(a) She gives thanks for a healthy child.
(b) She asks the nurse to give her child to her immediately.
(c) She cries from the pain.
(d) She begins to shiver profoundly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a book save Ashoke's life?

2. What does Gogol's father give him on his fourteenth birthday?

3. Why does the principal finally end up registering Gogol by his pet name?

4. What does Gogol give his mother as a gift when his baby sister is born?

5. Who else visits the baby Gogol in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ashoke do for Gogol's fourteenth birthday?

2. What do the Gangulis do differently when naming their daughter Sonali than they did when Gogol was born?

3. Why doesn't Ashima's grandmother name their grandchild as Ashima and Ashoke requested?

4. What does Gogol do during the traditional rice ceremony when he is six months old?

5. Why is Ashima afraid while in labor?

6. What happens when Gogol takes an English class in high school?

7. Why don't Ashima and Ashoke have a name picked out for their baby?

8. What job is Ashoke offered after finishing his college studies?

9. Who befriends Ashima at the hospital and how?

10. What do the Ganguli family do during Ashoke's sabbatical?

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