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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aurora do locked in her room, allowing no one to enter?
(a) writing a diary
(b) cutting off all her hair
(c) leaving by her window
(d) working on her art

2. What is the analogy to Rumpelstiltskin?
(a) Flory can get more jewels by a spinning wheel
(b) Flory gives Abraham a deadline to produce the son
(c) Flory demands his firstborn son
(d) Abraham uses blackmail to get the jewels

3. How does Moraes say he is living?
(a) in slow motion
(b) double quick
(c) without a home
(d) alone

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

5. How does Aurora treat Abraham?
(a) she is indifferent and uncaring
(b) she is dominating and abusing
(c) she is subservient and loving
(d) she is meek and gentle

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

7. 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

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

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

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

11. Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
(a) the captain of the spice ship
(b) the Commander of British Naval Forces
(c) the man who frees Aurora from prison
(d) the long time lover of Aires

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

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

14. Where did Aurora and Abraham have sex the first time?
(a) in Aurora's bedroom
(b) in the loft of the spice warehouse
(c) in the trees at Spice Mountain
(d) in the office of the da Gama business

15. What does Moraes say he is doing faster than he should?
(a) running from Miranda
(b) telling his story
(c) goinng through time
(d) breathing hard

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes say Aurora found out about the mushroom crone?

2. What are the words Moraes says that Aurora heard but could not see who spoke them?

3. What taboo subject does he discuss in chapter 7?

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

5. What does Moraes say about breathing?

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