The Namesake - Chapter 7

What object is described as, "...for together they form a record of all the Bengalis [Ashima] and Ashoke have known over the years..."

• a passport

• a journal

• an address book

• a travel log

At the beginning of the chapter what does Ashima make?

• the cover for an address book

• her own Christmas cards

• her clothes

• her own dinners while Ashoke is away

Where does Ashima work?

• at the public library

• in a restaurant

• at M.I .T.

• at Harvard

True or Fasle: Ashima does not want Maxine for her daughter-in-law.

• True

• False

What does Sonia do in San Francisco?

• she is a teacher while studying for her medical board exams

• she is a doctor

• she is an architect like her brother

• she works for an environmental agency and studies for her LSAT

What happens to Ashoke?

• he dies of a heart attack

• he dies from a stroke

• he is diagnosed with cancer

• he dies from a kidney disease

Where does Gogol fly to after hearing the news from Ashima about his father?

• to New York City

• to a funeral home in New Haven

• to a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio

• to Ashima's house

What causes Gogol to feel shame?

• he has to tell his name to the doctors who treated his father

• his father is unclothed in the morgue

• he is alone in a new city

• he refused to take Ashima's call

What book does Ashoke have with him in the hospital?

• "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol

• "The Comedians" by Graham Greene

• The Collected Works of Shakespeare

• The History of The Beatles

When is the first time Gogol is moved to tears?

• at the hospital

• seeing his father in the morgue

• imagining his father reading his favorite book by Gogol

• imagining his father living alone for three months