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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is foreshadowed during Aurora's confinement to her room?
(a) that she will be a great artist
(b) that she will be a noted singer
(c) that she will be a great politician
(d) that she will be a great writer

2. What does Moraes say Aurora became in the annual celebration of Ganesha?
(a) the star attraction of the festival she hated
(b) the mad woman of Ganesha
(c) the official artist of Ganesha
(d) the lead dancer in the Ganesha procession

3. How does Moraes say he got closer to his mother?
(a) modeling for her
(b) asking his father
(c) listening to her poems
(d) studying her paintings

4. Where did Aurora and Abraham have sex the first time?
(a) in the office of the da Gama business
(b) in the trees at Spice Mountain
(c) in the loft of the spice warehouse
(d) in Aurora's bedroom

5. Who does Moraes say helped Aurora when Abraham collapsed?
(a) an old mushroom-selling crone
(b) the three girls
(c) peg-leg Lambajan Chandiwala
(d) a mysterious dark-skinned man

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Moraes' physical deformity at birth?

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

4. What does Moraes call the Black Gold of Malabar?

5. Why does Abraham distance himself from the Jewish community?

(see the answer key)

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