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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Aurora take her son to Lord Khusro Khusrovani Bhagwan and his charlatan mother-manager?
(a) to become an apprentice
(b) for medicine to stunt his growth
(c) for a miracle healing of his hand
(d) for a metaphysical encounter

3. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?
(a) the greed of organized religion
(b) in order to spite his mother
(c) any other path would lead to sectarian violence
(d) another path would require to much sacrifice

4. What does Moraes say Abraham finally revealed?
(a) his feeling of entrapment by aurora
(b) his part in Flory's death
(c) his Jewish roots
(d) the shady deals that had underpinned his economic success

5. How does Moraes identify his family?
(a) as great people who administered charties
(b) as a family of many different ethnic backgrounds
(c) as heirs to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
(d) as frauds claiming to be what they are not

Short Answer Questions

1. Who serves as model for Aurora's Moor paintings?

2. Who does Uma say she has loved?

3. How does Moraes say he is living?

4. What angers Aires by their disappearance?

5. What does Aurora become?

(see the answer key)

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