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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aurora's punishment for her mischief?
(a) a public spanking
(b) cancellation of her birthday party
(c) banishment to a convent
(d) a week's detention in her room

2. Who says, with that God stuff I got scared?
(a) Aires
(b) Moraes
(c) Camoens
(d) Epifania

3. How is Abraham's physical infirmity introduced?
(a) he feels his chest tighten with asthma
(b) he has to rest if he walks far
(c) he often cannot sleep
(d) he coughs up blood

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

5. What does Aurora call the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth?
(a) Allover Death
(b) Ollie Verdathe
(c) O Livid Earth
(d) A Liver Death

6. What is Aurora's goal in all her night time activity?
(a) to belittle her uncle
(b) to have a good laugh
(c) to terrorize her father
(d) to kill her grandmother

7. What angers Aires by their disappearance?
(a) his transvestite clothes
(b) his little black address and telephone book
(c) his beloved ivories and Ganesha statues
(d) his latest two lovers

8. How does Abie do at first when taking over the family business to run?
(a) he squanders money until the company nearly fails
(b) he stockpiles spices until they are safe to ship
(c) he loses three shiploads of spice to German U-boats
(d) he starts doing exclusive business with the Germans

9. What does Moraes say Aurora became in the annual celebration of Ganesha?
(a) the mad woman of Ganesha
(b) the star attraction of the festival she hated
(c) the official artist of Ganesha
(d) the lead dancer in the Ganesha procession

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

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

12. What is the reader not sure of at this point in chapter four?
(a) whether anyone will find his notes
(b) whether Moraes will give his last sigh
(c) whether or not Moraes is in his right mind
(d) whether it is disease or Miranda that will kill Moraes

13. What does Moraes say he learns to accept?
(a) what will be, can change
(b) what he can do with his left hand
(c) what is as what must be
(d) what works and what doesn't

14. What does Aurora look like as a teenager?
(a) a short, obese thirteen year old
(b) a short, beautiful thirteen year old
(c) a tall, thin, thirteen year old
(d) a tall, square thirteen year old

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Moraes' physical deformity at birth?

2. How does Moraes say Aurora became so famous at the Ganesha festival?

3. What does Miranda paint over the portrait of Aurora?

4. How does he get the money to restore the business after the losses?

5. How does Vasco Miranda enter the narrative?

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