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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?
(a) the heatwave that killed the crops
(b) the arguments between families
(c) the anger of Epifania
(d) the fire at Spice Mountains

3. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?
(a) Christ nailed to the corss
(b) Martin Luther's theses on the church door
(c) boards nailed over sensual mosaics
(d) Star of David nailed over Jewish doors

4. What is Aurora's goal in all her night time activity?
(a) to belittle her uncle
(b) to have a good laugh
(c) to kill her grandmother
(d) to terrorize her father

5. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?
(a) his last will and testament
(b) his epic poetry
(c) his family's secrets
(d) his suicide notes

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does she open the windows at night?

2. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?

3. How does aurora appear on the outside?

4. What is foreshadowed during Aurora's confinement to her room?

5. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?

(see the answer key)

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