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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. How does Gogol go about changing his school documents that were completed using the name Gogol?
(a) He almost boasts to everyone about his name change.
(b) Only when necessary because paperwork doesn't match.
(c) In stealth, not letting his classmates know about it.
(d) Methodically, one paper at a time but in no hurry.

2. 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 goes a little wild and ends up drunk.
(d) He moves back home because he's homesick and he commutes.

3. How does Ashima's family keep in touch with her after Gogol's birth?
(a) They call every evening at six, right after dinner.
(b) They exchange long letters about once a month.
(c) They communicate sporadically.
(d) They write letters, once as many as three a week.

4. Are there many children about Gogol''s age at his second birthday party?
(a) There are a few his age, most are older.
(b) Only one, a girl named Moushumi.
(c) Most of the children are about Gogol's age.
(d) He and Sonia are the only children, the guests are his parents' friends.

5. What kind of people are Ashima's neighbors in her first home in America?
(a) Out-of-work Americans.
(b) A mix of peoples from all over the world.
(c) Other immigrants from India.
(d) Families of professors at Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashoke do while pacing in the mens' waiting room at the hospital?

2. How does the breakup between Gogol/Nakhil and Ruth happen?

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

4. What kind of name does Ashoke consider Gogol to be when he chooses it for his son?

5. In what type of neighborhood do the Gangulis finally purchase a home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ashima think about while in labor?

2. How does Gogol feel about his family during visits home from college?

3. What is Ashima doing when her water breaks?

4. Why does Ashoke choose the name Nikhil for Gogol when he begins school?

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

6. Why doesn't the school call Gogol by the name Nikhil?

7. At college after changing his name, how does Gogol react to being called by his new name?

8. Why aren't Ashoke and Ashima concerned that they don't have a name picked out before the birth of their child?

9. Why is Ashima afraid while in labor?

10. What type of home do the Gangulis settle down in to raise their family?

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