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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 Epifania's example cause the rest of the family to do?
(a) take up Catholicism
(b) throw off organized religion
(c) fear her connection to God
(d) join in her religious devotion

2. What does Miranda paint over the portrait of Aurora?
(a) a portrait of the four children
(b) a seascape with spice ships
(c) a self portrait as a weeping Arab on horseback
(d) a painting of Ganesha

3. Who is the person he begins his narrative with?
(a) his father, Abraham Zogoiby
(b) his grandmother, Isabella Ximena Souza da Gama
(c) his mother, Aurora
(d) homosexual great uncle, Aires da Gama

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

5. How does Moraes describe his feelings for his parents?
(a) hardly ever seeing them
(b) a deep devotion
(c) a constant fear
(d) a love-hate relationship

Short Answer Questions

1. What need does Moraes have to be candid about his parents' sex life?

2. Which of the characters becomes enamored first of Leninism and later of Nehru's Party Congress?

3. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?

4. Why is Moraes Zogoiby on the run?

5. Why does she open the windows at night?

(see the answer key)

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