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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. Who eventually gains control of the family businesses?
(a) Belle
(b) Epifania
(c) Aurora
(d) Carmen

2. Who says, with that God stuff I got scared?
(a) Camoens
(b) Moraes
(c) Epifania
(d) Aires

3. What is a likely reason Flory had made her money?
(a) she had been a fence for jewel thieves
(b) she had embezzled from the synagogue
(c) she had been a prostitute
(d) she had smuggled hasheesh

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

5. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?
(a) boards nailed over sensual mosaics
(b) Martin Luther's theses on the church door
(c) Star of David nailed over Jewish doors
(d) Christ nailed to the corss

Short Answer Questions

1. How does he get the money to restore the business after the losses?

2. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?

3. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?

4. To what does Moraes compare his resting place in the cemetery?

5. Who come to the defense of Aurora and Abraham?

(see the answer key)

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