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

2. What foils the plan to take over the family business?
(a) Canoens gives the business to Leninists
(b) the British take over the spice business
(c) the only grandchild is a girl, Aurora
(d) the brothers file a lawsuit

3. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?
(a) Martin Luther's theses on the church door
(b) Star of David nailed over Jewish doors
(c) boards nailed over sensual mosaics
(d) Christ nailed to the corss

4. What does Moraes say about breathing?
(a) life is measured in the breaths we take
(b) we inhale the world and breath out meaning
(c) babies and crones breathe differently
(d) breath is the spice of life

5. What do Aurora's pranks make Camoens believe?
(a) that Epifania is trying to drive him away
(b) that Aires is trying to kill him
(c) that Epifania has lost her mind
(d) the house is haunted by his recently-deceased wife

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does aurora appear on the outside?

3. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?

4. What happens in the house after Epifania dies?

5. What are Epifania's last words?

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