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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Moraes' physical deformity at birth?
(a) crossed eyes
(b) a club foot
(c) over large ears
(d) a deformed right hand

3. Why does she open the windows at night?
(a) to let in boys who visit her at night
(b) to listen to the nightingales
(c) to let in the moonlight
(d) to let in mosquitos to torment Epifania

4. How does he get the money to restore the business after the losses?
(a) from share cropping the spice fields
(b) from Flory's treasure chest
(c) from leasing out the company ships
(d) from bank loans

5. Where has Moraes left a trail of written narratives?
(a) in cemeteries from India to Spain
(b) nailed to gates, fences, and trees along his way
(c) in letters to a promanent journalist
(d) in safe deposit vaults of several banks

6. How did the people of Bombay regard Aurora da Gama?
(a) as angelic
(b) as ethereal
(c) as helpless
(d) as demonic

7. In reality, what is Aurora's character?
(a) a thoughtless gossip
(b) a lonely, unhappy artist
(c) a mutinous, inventively vicious prankster
(d) a friendly, helpful young lady

8. What happens that turns Carmen into a nurse for Aires and his lover?
(a) they are both wounded in the war
(b) they both nearly die from asthma attacks
(c) they both come down with tuberculosis
(d) they contract a particularly pernicious strain of syphilis

9. How does Flory die?
(a) Aurora has her assassinated
(b) a madman immolates himself and Flory's robes catch fire
(c) she strangles on a spice cake
(d) a madman gives her some poison wine

10. For what is the synagogue famous?
(a) blue tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(b) green tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(c) ivory tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(d) multi-colored tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling

11. What happens to the chapel after Francisco dies?
(a) it is left as a monument to him
(b) it is raxed to the ground
(c) it is restored to its original decor
(d) it becomes his mausoleum

12. What name does Aurora give the painting by Miranda?
(a) The Moor's Last Sigh
(b) The Work-o of a Madman
(c) The Spice of Life
(d) The Fool on a Horse

13. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?
(a) his last will and testament
(b) his family's secrets
(c) his suicide notes
(d) his epic poetry

14. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?
(a) another path would require to much sacrifice
(b) the greed of organized religion
(c) in order to spite his mother
(d) any other path would lead to sectarian violence

15. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?
(a) the spice trail from China
(b) inferior quality spices
(c) spices kept under the table
(d) India, exploited for its spices

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Francisco leave his estate and the Gama Trading Company?

3. What drove a wedge between the between Epifania and her husband and polarized their sons?

4. Who steps up to claim responsibility for the disappearances of things in the house?

5. What is the analogy to Rumpelstiltskin?

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