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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. Who eventually gains control of the family businesses?
(a) Belle
(b) Epifania
(c) Carmen
(d) Aurora

2. What does Aurora do locked in her room, allowing no one to enter?
(a) cutting off all her hair
(b) leaving by her window
(c) working on her art
(d) writing a diary

3. In reality, what is Aurora's character?
(a) a mutinous, inventively vicious prankster
(b) a friendly, helpful young lady
(c) a thoughtless gossip
(d) a lonely, unhappy artist

4. What angers Aires by their disappearance?
(a) his latest two lovers
(b) his little black address and telephone book
(c) his transvestite clothes
(d) his beloved ivories and Ganesha statues

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Epifania classify the renovated chapel?

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

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

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

5. What changes Camoens from Gandhi to Nehru?

(see the answer key)

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