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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 are the words Moraes says that Aurora heard but could not see who spoke them?
(a) obeah, jadoo, fo, fum
(b) menchi kaboo, lawanda kazoo
(c) chicken entrails, kingdom come
(d) bibbity bobbity boo

2. Who steps up to claim responsibility for the disappearances of things in the house?
(a) the gardeners
(b) Aurora
(c) the latrine cleaners
(d) the houseboys

3. Who commissions Miranda to paint a portrait of Aurora and her newborn daughter Ina?
(a) Flory
(b) Aires
(c) Aurora
(d) Abraham

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aurora take her son to Lord Khusro Khusrovani Bhagwan and his charlatan mother-manager?

2. What drove a wedge between the between Epifania and her husband and polarized their sons?

3. What results from Moraes' looking too old for kindergarten and too immature intellectually when it came time for his education?

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

5. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?

(see the answer key)

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