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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. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?
(a) the foreman at the family business
(b) her daughters-in-law, Belle and Carmen
(c) her current lover
(d) her granddaughter, Aurora

2. Where does Aurora live?
(a) in her own mansion
(b) in her uncle Aires' house
(c) in a small cottage behind Epifania's mansion
(d) in her grandmother's household

3. What characterizes the strange speech patterns of the family?
(a) adding ofy to verbs and o to many nouns
(b) making up senseless words
(c) reversing word order in sentences
(d) speaking breathlessly and staccato

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

5. Who is the person he begins his narrative with?
(a) his father, Abraham Zogoiby
(b) homosexual great uncle, Aires da Gama
(c) his grandmother, Isabella Ximena Souza da Gama
(d) his mother, Aurora

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?

2. What foils the plan to take over the family business?

3. How does Moraes identify his family?

4. What happens to the chapel after Francisco dies?

5. What led Francisco da Gama to make changes in the house and chapel?

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