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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 did Francisco da Gama do to the family chapel?
(a) change it to a sterile, modernist motif
(b) tear it down and put up a Buddhist temple
(c) decorate it Hindu style
(d) change it into an office

2. The heiress to the da Gama fortune, Aurora falls in love with what older man?
(a) Adam Zogoiby
(b) Aaron Zogoiby
(c) Amos Zogoiby
(d) Abraham Zogoiby

3. Why does Abraham distance himself from the Jewish community?
(a) because of his love for Aurora
(b) because he sees visions in the tiles
(c) because he cannot stand seeing Flory
(d) because he fears for his life

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes lament?

2. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?

3. What foils the plan to take over the family business?

4. What is Aurora's punishment for her mischief?

5. What happens to the chapel after Francisco dies?

(see the answer key)

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