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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. How did the people of Bombay regard Aurora da Gama?
(a) as helpless
(b) as angelic
(c) as ethereal
(d) as demonic

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

3. What does Aurora look like as a teenager?
(a) a short, obese thirteen year old
(b) a short, beautiful thirteen year old
(c) a tall, thin, thirteen year old
(d) a tall, square thirteen year old

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when distant relatives are invited to stay at the da Gama houses?

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

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

4. Where does Aurora live?

5. How does Moraes identify his family?

(see the answer key)

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