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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What need does Moraes have to be candid about his parents' sex life?
(a) to establish his legitimacy
(b) to get even with his family
(c) to explain his madness
(d) to tell his story fully and candidly

2. Who succeeds in rousing the rabble of Cochin against the unorthodox couple?
(a) Aires
(b) Flory
(c) D'Aeth
(d) Vasco Miranda

3. How does Moraes say Lambajan lost his leg?
(a) it was shot off in the war
(b) Aurora ran over it in her Buick
(c) Aurora's driver ran over him
(d) a shark got him swimming in the ocean

4. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?
(a) in a minute mighty Moe
(b) I'm a minna in my moat
(c) eeny, meeny, miney, moe
(d) in a meany minor mow

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?

2. What does Moraes say Minnie did that horrified Aurora?

3. Who is the tutor with whom Moraes has a physical relationship?

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

5. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?

(see the answer key)

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