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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moraes tell in the interest of full disclosure about his infancy?
(a) his mother and sisters had abused him as a baby
(b) he often watch Vasco Miranda having sex
(c) he entered puberty at the age of eight
(d) Minnie used to take off all his clothes

2. What followed Aurora's snubbing of Prime Minister Nehru at the presentation ceremony of the Esteemed Lotus Award for Excellence in the Arts?
(a) high praise from the news media
(b) a shot exile to England
(c) a brief ostracism by India's artistic elite
(d) a brief prison sentence

3. What does Aurora do to torment her father and uncle?
(a) commit acts of petty theft and vandalism
(b) leave notes on their doors at night
(c) wail like a ghost at night
(d) paint pictures of them nude

4. Which of the household servants could Aires not touch?
(a) the cooks
(b) the boatmen
(c) the gardeners
(d) the latrine cleaners

5. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?
(a) a cricket player in the nude
(b) a passionate clinch that was banned in India
(c) a young girl kissing Ganesha
(d) youg girl dancers wearing only bells and bangles

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The heiress to the da Gama fortune, Aurora falls in love with what older man?

3. Where does Aurora live?

4. What foliage does Camoens says is all he need to hear?

5. What is Moraes' physical deformity at birth?

(see the answer key)

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