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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in the house after Epifania dies?
(a) it becomes merrier
(b) it is closed up for a month
(c) it turns dark
(d) it begins to crumble

2. How does Epifania classify the renovated chapel?
(a) as fitting for the body and blood of Christ
(b) as fitting for an art gallery
(c) as fitting for a king
(d) as fitting for a birthday cake

3. What happens when distant relatives are invited to stay at the da Gama houses?
(a) nephews become interested in the family businesses
(b) Epifania calms down
(c) war between the families
(d) additions have to be made to the houses

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Epifania's example cause the rest of the family to do?

2. Which of the household servants could Aires not touch?

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

4. Who says, with that God stuff I got scared?

5. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?

(see the answer key)

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