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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the British authorities do to Camoens and Aires?
(a) fine them for the fire
(b) arrest them for treason
(c) sentence them to 15 years in prison
(d) exile them to Spain

2. What led Francisco da Gama to make changes in the house and chapel?
(a) Ghandian simplicity
(b) religious fervor
(c) artistic temperament
(d) punishment for Epifania

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

4. How does Aurora react to her portrait?
(a) she takes it to a museum
(b) she puts it in the great hall
(c) she is offended
(d) she commissions three more

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

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

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

8. How does Moraes say Lambajan lost his leg?
(a) Aurora ran over it in her Buick
(b) Aurora's driver ran over him
(c) it was shot off in the war
(d) a shark got him swimming in the ocean

9. What does Aurora become?
(a) a dutiful wife
(b) a hag like Epifania
(c) a benefactor of the poor
(d) an artist of international renown

10. Who is the first person allowed to see the paintings?
(a) her grandmother, Epifania
(b) her father, Camoens
(c) her aunt, Carmen
(d) her uncle, aires

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

12. What happens in the house after Epifania dies?
(a) it begins to crumble
(b) it is closed up for a month
(c) it turns dark
(d) it becomes merrier

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

14. What allows Aurora and Abie to reunite?
(a) when Flory gets pregnant with her own child
(b) when Flory gives up
(c) when Flory loses her remaining faculties
(d) when Flory loses the paper her son signed

15. Besides Aurora's pranks, what convinces Camoens that Belle is haunting the house?
(a) a medium who talks to Belle's ghost
(b) her face everywhere he looks
(c) complaints from others that they hear Belle's voice
(d) scratch marks on his body

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's physical problem?

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

3. What angers Aires by their disappearance?

4. How does Vasco Miranda enter the narrative?

5. Who does Moraes say helped Aurora when Abraham collapsed?

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