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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 shadowy figure is alluded to in Chapter 6?
(a) Flory Roary
(b) Vasco da Gama
(c) Vasco Miranda
(d) Laslo Miranda

2. Who succeeds in rousing the rabble of Cochin against the unorthodox couple?
(a) Aires
(b) Flory
(c) D'Aeth
(d) Vasco Miranda

3. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Moraes
(b) Camoens
(c) Epifania
(d) Aires

4. Which of the characters becomes enamored first of Leninism and later of Nehru's Party Congress?
(a) Aires
(b) Epifania
(c) Belle
(d) Camoens

5. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?
(a) any other path would lead to sectarian violence
(b) in order to spite his mother
(c) the greed of organized religion
(d) another path would require to much sacrifice

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ganesha?

2. How does Aurora treat Abraham?

3. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?

4. About what does Moraes soliloquize at the beginning of chapter 7?

5. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's physical problem?

(see the answer key)

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