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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aurora do to torment her father and uncle?
(a) paint pictures of them nude
(b) wail like a ghost at night
(c) commit acts of petty theft and vandalism
(d) leave notes on their doors at night

2. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?
(a) Epifania's dance
(b) Epifania's demise
(c) Epifania's confession
(d) Epifania's meeting with a lover

3. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?
(a) on a ship in the ocean
(b) a graveyard in Spain
(c) on his deathbed
(d) on top of a mountain

4. What do the British authorities do to Camoens and Aires?
(a) sentence them to 15 years in prison
(b) arrest them for treason
(c) exile them to Spain
(d) fine them for the fire

5. What does Moraes say about breathing?
(a) breath is the spice of life
(b) babies and crones breathe differently
(c) we inhale the world and breath out meaning
(d) life is measured in the breaths we take

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the characters becomes enamored first of Leninism and later of Nehru's Party Congress?

2. What exists in a Benengeli village on a hill?

3. Who steps up to claim responsibility for the disappearances of things in the house?

4. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?

5. What are Epifania's last words?

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