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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Flory Zogoiby object to her son's marrying Aurora?
(a) because she knows he is homosexual
(b) because she is not a Jewess
(c) because she is too young
(d) because she doesn't want him to marry

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

3. How does Moraes classify Epifania's life?
(a) a conspicuous life of prayer
(b) a relative life of ease
(c) an obvious life of rebellion
(d) a contageous life of bitterness

4. What is the reader not sure of at this point in chapter four?
(a) whether Moraes will give his last sigh
(b) whether it is disease or Miranda that will kill Moraes
(c) whether or not Moraes is in his right mind
(d) whether anyone will find his notes

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. What angers Aires by their disappearance?

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

3. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?

4. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?

5. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?

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