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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Aurora give the painting by Miranda?
(a) The Fool on a Horse
(b) The Work-o of a Madman
(c) The Spice of Life
(d) The Moor's Last Sigh

2. What foils the plan to take over the family business?
(a) the British take over the spice business
(b) the only grandchild is a girl, Aurora
(c) Canoens gives the business to Leninists
(d) the brothers file a lawsuit

3. Who helps Moraes cope with his deformity and rapid growth?
(a) Aurora
(b) Vasco Miranda
(c) his sisters
(d) Abraham

4. Who come to the defense of Aurora and Abraham?
(a) Aires and Carmen
(b) Flory and D'Aeth
(c) Belle and Carmen
(d) Vasco and Sahara

5. How does Moraes say his mother died?
(a) being poisoned by her servants
(b) falling from her roof onto the rocks below
(c) having a heart attack on her roof
(d) living to a ripe old age

6. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?
(a) India, exploited for its spices
(b) the spice trail from China
(c) spices kept under the table
(d) inferior quality spices

7. What does Moraes tell the reader about the dark side of Vasco Miranda's personality?
(a) moodiness and holding grudges
(b) dealing in black magic and sorcery
(c) drug smuggling and assassinations
(d) aggressive fury, alcohol and drug abuse, bisexual orgies

8. The heiress to the da Gama fortune, Aurora falls in love with what older man?
(a) Abraham Zogoiby
(b) Aaron Zogoiby
(c) Adam Zogoiby
(d) Amos Zogoiby

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

10. What happens to the chapel after Francisco dies?
(a) it becomes his mausoleum
(b) it is restored to its original decor
(c) it is left as a monument to him
(d) it is raxed to the ground

11. For what is the synagogue famous?
(a) ivory tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(b) green tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(c) blue tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(d) multi-colored tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling

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

13. 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

14. Which of the household servants could Aires not touch?
(a) the cooks
(b) the latrine cleaners
(c) the gardeners
(d) the boatmen

15. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?
(a) the haunting of the house
(b) deep religious convictions
(c) crime and punishment
(d) family history and Indian cultures

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who succeeds in rousing the rabble of Cochin against the unorthodox couple?

3. What shadowy figure is alluded to in Chapter 6?

4. Where did Aurora and Abraham have sex the first time?

5. From infancy through adolescence, what did Abraham see in the synagogue tiles?

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