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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 did Francisco da Gama do to the family chapel?
(a) tear it down and put up a Buddhist temple
(b) change it into an office
(c) decorate it Hindu style
(d) change it to a sterile, modernist motif

2. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?
(a) her daughters-in-law, Belle and Carmen
(b) the foreman at the family business
(c) her granddaughter, Aurora
(d) her current lover

3. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?
(a) graying and losing his talent
(b) jealous and deceptive
(c) angry, moody, dying
(d) aging, fattening, declining

4. How does Moraes say Aurora became so famous at the Ganesha festival?
(a) by dancing on the roof of her house
(b) by painting protraits of Ganesha
(c) by throwing lavish parties for Ganesha
(d) by underwriting the cost of Ganesha celebrations

5. What is foreshadowed during Aurora's confinement to her room?
(a) that she will be a great writer
(b) that she will be a noted singer
(c) that she will be a great politician
(d) that she will be a great artist

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Moraes say he learns to accept?

3. What happens because of Aurora's political activities?

4. How does Moraes describe his feelings for his parents?

5. Where did Aurora and Abraham have sex the first time?

(see the answer key)

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