The Namesake Quizzes

The Namesake Quiz 1

1 What city do Ashoke and Ashima first move to in the United States?
New York

Los Angeles

Cambridge

Chicago
2 What does Ashima do secretly before meeting Ashoke for the first time?
Reads the book he wrote

Whispers his name

Slips her feet into his shoes

Smells his cologne
3 Who gives Ashoke the hardbound book of short stories by Nikolai Gogol?
Ashima

His grandfather

His son

Ghosh
4 Who does Ashoke talk to on the train before it crashes in 1961?
His grandfather

Ashima

Gogol

Ghosh
5 Who was supposed to choose Gogol's name?
The doctor at the hospital

Ashima's grandmother

Ashoke's grandfather

Ashima
6 Who lives above the Gangulis in their apartment in Cambridge?
The Montgomerys

Their parents

Moushumi's parents

Mrs. Lapidus
7 What ceremony do Gogol and Sonia partake in at the age of six months?
Baptism

The rice ceremony

Marriage arrangement

A bris
8 Who calls to inform Ashima of her father's death?
Her mother

Rana

Ashoke's father

Her grandmother
9 When does Ashima learn Ashoke's name?
While Gogol is being conceived

During their marriage ceremony

Before she meets him

After they are betrothed
10 Why does Ashima feel alienated in the hospital before giving birth to Gogol?
Because there are no other patients on her floor

Because she thinks she is the only Bengali there

Because the nurse isolates her from the other patients

Because Ashoke refuses to come
11 What does Ashima accidentally forget on the train?
A book

The stroller

New clothes for Gogol

Presents for their family in India
12 What does Ashoke do for work?
He is a postman.

He is a doctor.

He is an author of novels.

He is a professor at a university.
13 On what street is the home that Ashoke and Ashima purchase?
Bengali Lane

Maverick Street

D Street

Pemberton Road
14 How old is Gogol when Ashima becomes pregnant with Sonia?
He is still an infant

Eight

Eleven

Five
15 Who decides that Gogol will not be called Nikhil in kindergarten?
The librarian

Ashima

The principal, Mrs. Lapidus

Ashoke
16 When does Gogol first become self conscious about his name?
On a school fieldtrip to a cemetery

In college

When he learns to speak

When he sees it written for the first time
17 What does Ashoke give to Gogol for his fourteenth birthday?
A car

A copy of I[The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol]

A jacket

A huge birthday party
18 Where do the Gangulis live for six months while Gogol is in tenth grade?
Calcutta

California

Italy

Paris
19 What does Mr. Lawson do that disturbs Gogol?
He assigns the class to read "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol

He yells at him in front of the entire class

He forgets his name

He has no idea who Nikolai Gogol is
20 With whom does Gogol share his first kiss?
Kim, at a college party while he is in high school

Maxine, at her parents' house

Moushumi, on his fourteenth birthday

Bridget, while her husband is away
21 When does Gogol legally change his name to Nikhil?
After graduating from Yale

The summer before college

Before marrying Moushumi

As soon as he learns to speak
22 Where does Gogol meet Ruth?
At Oxford

At a party at his parents' house

At a coffee shop near Yale

On the train ride home from college
23 What leads to Gogol's breakup with Ruth?
He meets another woman he prefers

His parents' interference

Her time studying abroad at Oxford

She has an affair
24 What does Ashoke tell Gogol after picking him up at the train station before Thanksgiving break?
That he doesn't approve of Ruth

The story of the train wreck that led to his name being Gogol

That he can no longer attend Yale

That Gogol must get married
25 What does Gogol do as a profession after college?
He is a waiter at a restaurant

He is an architect

He is a banker

He is a lawyer

The theme of the relationship between parents and children becomes prominent, as Gogol grows old enough to interact with his parents as a child. While Ashima is pregnant with Sonia, Gogol and Ashoke eat dinner alone together and Ashoke scolds...

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Chapter 7 and 8

Sonia is shocked and upset but is better deal with the death than others in the family. When Ashoke dies, she moves home to be with Ashima, leaving behind her life in San Francisco with little regret.

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Why does Gogol only feel guilt as the train is leaving after breaking up with Bridget?

I think Gogol thinks of the husband that Bridget is going back to, the husband that they both betrayed.

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