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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 does Moraes say he is doing faster than he should?
(a) goinng through time
(b) telling his story
(c) running from Miranda
(d) breathing hard

2. Who steps up to claim responsibility for the disappearances of things in the house?
(a) the latrine cleaners
(b) the houseboys
(c) Aurora
(d) the gardeners

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

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

5. What did Francisco da Gama do to the family chapel?
(a) change it into an office
(b) tear it down and put up a Buddhist temple
(c) change it to a sterile, modernist motif
(d) decorate it Hindu style

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Ganesha?

3. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?

4. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?

5. What was Jaya Hé caught doing that ended her job as tutor to Moor?

(see the answer key)

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