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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?
(a) family history and Indian cultures
(b) crime and punishment
(c) deep religious convictions
(d) the haunting of the house

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

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

4. Besides Aurora's pranks, what convinces Camoens that Belle is haunting the house?
(a) complaints from others that they hear Belle's voice
(b) a medium who talks to Belle's ghost
(c) her face everywhere he looks
(d) scratch marks on his body

5. From infancy through adolescence, what did Abraham see in the synagogue tiles?
(a) visions of his absent father
(b) visions of the prophets
(c) visions of a girl like Aurora
(d) visions of the martyrs

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ganesha?

2. What characterizes the strange speech patterns of the family?

3. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?

4. What happened after Flory's son was born?

5. How is Abraham's physical infirmity introduced?

(see the answer key)

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