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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. What term of endearment does Aurora use when speaking of Abraham?
(a) Pudding
(b) Spice of my life
(c) Darling
(d) Abie

2. What does Moraes lament?
(a) his heritage
(b) his short life
(c) his being a fugitive
(d) his lost love

3. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?
(a) Martin Luther's theses on the church door
(b) Christ nailed to the corss
(c) boards nailed over sensual mosaics
(d) Star of David nailed over Jewish doors

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

5. What characterizes the strange speech patterns of the family?
(a) speaking breathlessly and staccato
(b) reversing word order in sentences
(c) adding ofy to verbs and o to many nouns
(d) making up senseless words

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?

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

3. Who succeeds in rousing the rabble of Cochin against the unorthodox couple?

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

5. Where has Moraes left a trail of written narratives?

(see the answer key)

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