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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 foils the plan to take over the family business?
(a) the British take over the spice business
(b) the only grandchild is a girl, Aurora
(c) Canoens gives the business to Leninists
(d) the brothers file a lawsuit

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

3. What led Francisco da Gama to make changes in the house and chapel?
(a) Ghandian simplicity
(b) religious fervor
(c) artistic temperament
(d) punishment for Epifania

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?

3. What does Aurora look like as a teenager?

4. What does Aurora do to torment her father and uncle?

5. What does Moraes call the Black Gold of Malabar?

(see the answer key)

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