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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Moraes compare his resting place in the cemetery?
(a) the death of Socrates
(b) the Mount of Olives
(c) the home of the undead
(d) the home of Dracula

2. What is Ganesha?
(a) a special food prepared for Hindu holy days
(b) a type of rare emerald found only in India
(c) a Hindu god with a human body and an elephant head
(d) a kind of Hindu offering left before Siva

3. Which of the household servants could Aires not touch?
(a) the gardeners
(b) the cooks
(c) the boatmen
(d) the latrine cleaners

4. What does Moraes say Aurora found out about the mushroom crone?
(a) everyone called her the madwoman
(b) she was a ghost that people sometimes saw
(c) no one had ever heard of her
(d) she was a well known witch at Lonavla caves

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Moraes see about to disturb the peace of Bombay?

3. What is Moor's condition after Uma dies?

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

5. What is Aurora's unfinished, unsigned masterpiece?

(see the answer key)

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