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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who eventually gains control of the family businesses?
(a) Belle
(b) Carmen
(c) Aurora
(d) Epifania

2. What is a likely reason Flory had made her money?
(a) she had been a fence for jewel thieves
(b) she had been a prostitute
(c) she had smuggled hasheesh
(d) she had embezzled from the synagogue

3. How did Francisco leave his estate and the Gama Trading Company?
(a) equally divided between his two sons
(b) half to his family and half to the nationalist movement
(c) to a charity for homeless Indians
(d) totally to Epifania

4. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?
(a) Star of David nailed over Jewish doors
(b) boards nailed over sensual mosaics
(c) Martin Luther's theses on the church door
(d) Christ nailed to the corss

5. How does aurora appear on the outside?
(a) as a mentally unballanced child
(b) as a shy child
(c) as the perfect child
(d) as a noisy troublemaker

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Epifania's last words?

2. What did Francisco da Gama do to the family chapel?

3. What led Francisco da Gama to make changes in the house and chapel?

4. What does the argument between Flory and her son reveal to the reader?

5. What do the British authorities do to Camoens and Aires?

(see the answer key)

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