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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 is Moraes' medical problem?
(a) shortness of breath
(b) tuberculosis
(c) a bad heart
(d) lameness

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

3. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?
(a) Epifania's confession
(b) Epifania's dance
(c) Epifania's demise
(d) Epifania's meeting with a lover

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

5. What exists in a Benengeli village on a hill?
(a) a cave of buried treasure
(b) a shrine to St. Helena
(c) a lighthouse for ships
(d) Vasco Miranda's fortress

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who steps up to claim responsibility for the disappearances of things in the house?

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

4. What does Aurora do locked in her room, allowing no one to enter?

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

(see the answer key)

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