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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Aurora's pranks make Camoens believe?
(a) that Epifania is trying to drive him away
(b) that Aires is trying to kill him
(c) that Epifania has lost her mind
(d) the house is haunted by his recently-deceased wife

2. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's physical problem?
(a) intollerance of the Indian heat
(b) acute allergic reaction to spice
(c) recurring consumption
(d) serious asthma

3. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?
(a) on his deathbed
(b) on a ship in the ocean
(c) a graveyard in Spain
(d) on top of a mountain

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

5. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's emotional problem?
(a) his fear of the Jews
(b) his fear of his parishioners
(c) his distrust of Aurora
(d) his consumming lust for Aurora

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

7. The heiress to the da Gama fortune, Aurora falls in love with what older man?
(a) Aaron Zogoiby
(b) Amos Zogoiby
(c) Abraham Zogoiby
(d) Adam Zogoiby

8. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Aires
(b) Epifania
(c) Moraes
(d) Camoens

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

10. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?
(a) Epifania's dance
(b) Epifania's demise
(c) Epifania's confession
(d) Epifania's meeting with a lover

11. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?
(a) crime and punishment
(b) deep religious convictions
(c) the haunting of the house
(d) family history and Indian cultures

12. What changes Camoens from Gandhi to Nehru?
(a) business, technology, progress, and modernity
(b) Nehru's time spent in prison
(c) British acceptance of Gandhi
(d) Nehru's simple dress in a white sheet

13. What does Moraes say was his father's lament?
(a) trying to keep up with Aurora
(b) being an old father
(c) ever having married Aurora
(d) having to rest and catch his breath

14. Who succeeds in rousing the rabble of Cochin against the unorthodox couple?
(a) Aires
(b) D'Aeth
(c) Vasco Miranda
(d) Flory

15. How does Epifania classify the renovated chapel?
(a) as fitting for the body and blood of Christ
(b) as fitting for a king
(c) as fitting for a birthday cake
(d) as fitting for an art gallery

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aurora do locked in her room, allowing no one to enter?

2. What does Moraes say he is doing faster than he should?

3. What are Epifania's last words?

4. What is foreshadowed during Aurora's confinement to her room?

5. What does Aurora become?

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