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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the person he begins his narrative with?
(a) homosexual great uncle, Aires da Gama
(b) his grandmother, Isabella Ximena Souza da Gama
(c) his mother, Aurora
(d) his father, Abraham Zogoiby

3. About what does Moraes soliloquize at the beginning of chapter 7?
(a) the reason for his tale
(b) the fear he has of death
(c) the reason he is being pursued
(d) the authentic diversity of India

4. Who says, with that God stuff I got scared?
(a) Moraes
(b) Epifania
(c) Aires
(d) Camoens

5. What is Aurora's goal in all her night time activity?
(a) to terrorize her father
(b) to belittle her uncle
(c) to kill her grandmother
(d) to have a good laugh

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Epifania's last words?

2. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?

3. To what does Moraes compare his resting place in the cemetery?

4. In her fifties, what style does Aurora's paintings take?

5. What followed Aurora's snubbing of Prime Minister Nehru at the presentation ceremony of the Esteemed Lotus Award for Excellence in the Arts?

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