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

2. What does Aurora call the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth?
(a) A Liver Death
(b) O Livid Earth
(c) Ollie Verdathe
(d) Allover Death

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

4. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?
(a) Epifania's dance
(b) Epifania's confession
(c) Epifania's demise
(d) Epifania's meeting with a lover

5. How did Francisco leave his estate and the Gama Trading Company?
(a) equally divided between his two sons
(b) half to his family and half to the nationalist movement
(c) totally to Epifania
(d) to a charity for homeless Indians

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Moraes say he is living?

2. Which of the characters becomes enamored first of Leninism and later of Nehru's Party Congress?

3. What results from Moraes' looking too old for kindergarten and too immature intellectually when it came time for his education?

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

5. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?

(see the answer key)

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