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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. What does Aurora do when she learns of the deal between Abraham and Flory?
(a) removes herself to Calcutta
(b) sends him to work in Bombay
(c) locks him out of her bedroom
(d) sends him to prison

2. How does Moraes say he is living?
(a) without a home
(b) in slow motion
(c) double quick
(d) alone

3. What does Moraes call the Black Gold of Malabar?
(a) pepper
(b) ebony
(c) oil
(d) onyx

4. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's physical problem?
(a) serious asthma
(b) recurring consumption
(c) acute allergic reaction to spice
(d) intollerance of the Indian heat

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Aires by their disappearance?

2. From infancy through adolescence, what did Abraham see in the synagogue tiles?

3. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?

4. What are Epifania's last words?

5. What changes Camoens from Gandhi to Nehru?

(see the answer key)

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