1. 1. Why does Gogol tell the girl at the party, Kim, that his name is Nikhil? (1 point)
(0 pts) He does not want to tell Kim his name because he has already lied to her.
(0 pts) He does not want to tell Kim his name because he wishes there were another name he could use.
(1 pt) He does not want to tell Kim his name because he doesn’t want to see her reaction.
(0 pts) He does not want to tell Kim his name because he is not supposed to be on the girls’ floor of the
dormitory.
0 /1 point
2. What do the following lines from the novel tell readers about how Ashima feels about India compared to
how Gogol feels about India?
“His mother shops in New Market and goes to movies and sees her old school friends . . . She wanders
freely around a city in which Gogol, in spite of his many visits, has no sense of direction.”
(1 point)
(1 pt) Ashima feels free in India, while Gogol feels he has no sense of direction in India.
(0 pts) Ashima has many friends in India, while Gogol wishes he could make friends in India.
(0 pts) Ashima enjoys going to the New Market in India, while Gogol gets lost going to the New Market in
India.
(0 pts) Ashima likes seeing movies in India, while Gogol doesn’t.
1 /1 point
3. Using the following lines, which type of support is used to demonstrate that Sonia is negatively aected
by visiting the Taj Mahal?
“A tour guide tells them that aer
the Taj was completed, each of the builders . . . had his thumbs cut o
so that the structure could never be built again. That night in the hotel Sonia wakes up screaming that
her own thumbs are missing.”
(1 point)
(0 pts) speech
(0 pts) thoughts
(1 pt) actions
(0 pts) appearances
Ashima loves India. She misses it and her family there. She misses their customs and traditions. What she had in America is less than what she had in India. Here are some text that proves how she felt.
<span>Chapter 1 - "Ashima thinks it's strange that her child will be born in a place most people enter either to suffer or to die […] In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives."
</span><span>Chapter 3 - "For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy – a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding."
Gogol on the other hand does not love India. In fact, he veered away from all things Indian to the extent that he changed his name from Gogol to Nikhil. He immersed himself to the American life and turned his back from his family. Here are some text that proves how he felt.
</span><span>Chapter 5 - It is as Nikhil that he loses his virginity at a party at Ezra Stile, with a girl wearing a plaid woolen skirt and combat boots and mustard tights.</span>
<span>He cannot imagine coming from such parents, such a background, and when he describes his own upbringing it feels bland by comparison. </span>
Reflection means to think about something that happened in the past, so we can immediately eliminate answer choices 2 and 3. Comparing the past and the present is just seeing how they are different, and reflections are often personal, so I would go with the first answer choice.
