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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is foreshadowed during Aurora's confinement to her room?
(a) that she will be a great writer
(b) that she will be a great politician
(c) that she will be a noted singer
(d) that she will be a great artist

2. What taboo subject does he discuss in chapter 7?
(a) his own sexual experiences
(b) his great uncle's homosexuality
(c) his mother's nude paintings
(d) his parents' sexual activity

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

4. 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 mosquitos to torment Epifania
(d) to let in the moonlight

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

6. Who eventually gains control of the family businesses?
(a) Epifania
(b) Belle
(c) Carmen
(d) Aurora

7. Why is Moraes Zogoiby on the run?
(a) he is chased by wolves
(b) he is leaving his wife
(c) he has escaped from prison
(d) he has embexxled a fortune

8. How does Moraes say his mother died?
(a) living to a ripe old age
(b) being poisoned by her servants
(c) falling from her roof onto the rocks below
(d) having a heart attack on her roof

9. How does aurora appear on the outside?
(a) as a shy child
(b) as a mentally unballanced child
(c) as a noisy troublemaker
(d) as the perfect child

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?

2. What is Moraes' physical deformity at birth?

3. What is the reader not sure of at this point in chapter four?

4. What is Ganesha?

5. How does Moraes identify his family?

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