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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?
(a) spices kept under the table
(b) India, exploited for its spices
(c) the spice trail from China
(d) inferior quality spices

2. How does Moraes classify Epifania's life?
(a) an obvious life of rebellion
(b) a conspicuous life of prayer
(c) a relative life of ease
(d) a contageous life of bitterness

3. What does Moraes lament?
(a) his heritage
(b) his lost love
(c) his short life
(d) his being a fugitive

4. How does Moraes say his mother died?
(a) being poisoned by her servants
(b) falling from her roof onto the rocks below
(c) having a heart attack on her roof
(d) living to a ripe old age

5. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?
(a) her current lover
(b) the foreman at the family business
(c) her daughters-in-law, Belle and Carmen
(d) her granddaughter, Aurora

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ganesha?

2. What led Francisco da Gama to make changes in the house and chapel?

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

4. What does Moraes say Aurora became in the annual celebration of Ganesha?

5. How does Moraes say he is living?

(see the answer key)

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