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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. Why does she open the windows at night?
(a) to let in mosquitos to torment Epifania
(b) to let in boys who visit her at night
(c) to listen to the nightingales
(d) to let in the moonlight

2. Where has Moraes left a trail of written narratives?
(a) in letters to a promanent journalist
(b) in safe deposit vaults of several banks
(c) in cemeteries from India to Spain
(d) nailed to gates, fences, and trees along his way

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

4. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?
(a) a graveyard in Spain
(b) on top of a mountain
(c) on a ship in the ocean
(d) on his deathbed

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Aurora's pranks make Camoens believe?

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

4. What do the British authorities do to Camoens and Aires?

5. What drove a wedge between the between Epifania and her husband and polarized their sons?

(see the answer key)

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