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Jhumpa Lahiri, Going Ashore

Jhumpa Lahiri, Going Ashore

Read Going Ashore and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What is Navin’s relationship to Hema?

He is her brother.

He is her colleague.

His her father.

He is her fiancé.

2. Both Navin and Hema are

physicists.

philanthropists.

professors.

physicians.

3. What did Kaushik feel proud of doing in the village outside Morazán?

He saved a group of locals who’d been trapped in a fallen building.

He captured a killer.

He saved a man’s life by administering CPR.

He took a picture of a man who’d been shot in the head.

4. Why did looking at Kaushik’s pictures upset Hema?

because he’d stolen someone else’s work

because they were of another woman

because he’d become her lover

because they were gruesome

5. What happens at the close of the story?

Hema chooses to stay with Kaushik, who then drowns.

Navin finds out about Hema’s affair and disgraces her before her family.

Hema leaves Navin and marries Kaushik.

Hema marries Navin and Kaushik dies.