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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. Who was the doorkeeper of Elephanta, Aurora's estate according to Moraes?
(a) cross-eyed Lambajan Chandiwala
(b) peg-legged Lambajan Chandiwala
(c) bow-legged Lambajan Chandiwala
(d) deaf-eared Lambajan Chandiwala

2. What angers Aires by their disappearance?
(a) his transvestite clothes
(b) his latest two lovers
(c) his beloved ivories and Ganesha statues
(d) his little black address and telephone book

3. What exists in a Benengeli village on a hill?
(a) a cave of buried treasure
(b) Vasco Miranda's fortress
(c) a shrine to St. Helena
(d) a lighthouse for ships

4. What results from Moraes' looking too old for kindergarten and too immature intellectually when it came time for his education?
(a) he had to study at night
(b) he had to be home schooled
(c) he had to wear a veil
(d) he had to be schooled in Paris

5. What does Moraes say Aurora found out about the mushroom crone?
(a) everyone called her the madwoman
(b) she was a well known witch at Lonavla caves
(c) no one had ever heard of her
(d) she was a ghost that people sometimes saw

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Moraes Zogoiby on the run?

2. What do the British authorities do to Camoens and Aires?

3. Who does Moraes say helped Aurora when Abraham collapsed?

4. What happens that turns Carmen into a nurse for Aires and his lover?

5. Who does Moor say is the woman who transformed, exalted and ruined his life?

(see the answer key)

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