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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ganesha?
(a) a kind of Hindu offering left before Siva
(b) a Hindu god with a human body and an elephant head
(c) a type of rare emerald found only in India
(d) a special food prepared for Hindu holy days

2. Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
(a) the man who frees Aurora from prison
(b) the Commander of British Naval Forces
(c) the long time lover of Aires
(d) the captain of the spice ship

3. What is the analogy to Rumpelstiltskin?
(a) Flory demands his firstborn son
(b) Abraham uses blackmail to get the jewels
(c) Flory can get more jewels by a spinning wheel
(d) Flory gives Abraham a deadline to produce the son

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

5. What does Aurora become?
(a) a benefactor of the poor
(b) a hag like Epifania
(c) an artist of international renown
(d) a dutiful wife

6. Why is Moraes estranged from his mother?
(a) a disagreement about religion
(b) a clash over money
(c) a disagreement about art
(d) a clash over his lover, Uma

7. Where does Aurora have Miranda paint cartoon murals?
(a) on the outside walls of her mansion
(b) in the chapel
(c) on the walls of the spice company
(d) on the nursery walls

8. What does Moraes say he learns to accept?
(a) what will be, can change
(b) what works and what doesn't
(c) what is as what must be
(d) what he can do with his left hand

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

10. What foliage does Camoens says is all he need to hear?
(a) his family tree
(b) bougainvillias
(c) spice plants
(d) olive trees

11. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?
(a) another path would require to much sacrifice
(b) the greed of organized religion
(c) in order to spite his mother
(d) any other path would lead to sectarian violence

12. What does the family legend say is in Flory's treasure chest?
(a) a four hundred year old crown
(b) gold smuggled out of Spain
(c) diamonds from Africa
(d) a golden statue of Siva

13. How does Flory die?
(a) she strangles on a spice cake
(b) Aurora has her assassinated
(c) a madman gives her some poison wine
(d) a madman immolates himself and Flory's robes catch fire

14. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Camoens
(b) Moraes
(c) Aires
(d) Epifania

15. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?
(a) the fire at Spice Mountains
(b) the arguments between families
(c) the anger of Epifania
(d) the heatwave that killed the crops

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes say was his father's lament?

2. In reality, what is Aurora's character?

3. Why does she open the windows at night?

4. Why does Flory Zogoiby object to her son's marrying Aurora?

5. Where does Aurora live?

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