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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Epifania's last words?
(a) a blessing for Aurora
(b) a curse on Aurora
(c) a prayer to St. Francis
(d) a song of praise

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

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

4. Who was the doorkeeper of Elephanta, Aurora's estate according to Moraes?
(a) bow-legged Lambajan Chandiwala
(b) deaf-eared Lambajan Chandiwala
(c) peg-legged Lambajan Chandiwala
(d) cross-eyed Lambajan Chandiwala

5. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Camoens
(b) Aires
(c) Epifania
(d) Moraes

6. What drove a wedge between the between Epifania and her husband and polarized their sons?
(a) Francisco da Gama's scientific experiments
(b) Francisco da Gama's religious fanatacism
(c) Francisco da Gama's Indian nationalism
(d) Francisco da Gama's strange architecture preferences

7. Where does Aurora live?
(a) in her uncle Aires' house
(b) in her grandmother's household
(c) in her own mansion
(d) in a small cottage behind Epifania's mansion

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

9. How does Moraes say Aurora became so famous at the Ganesha festival?
(a) by painting protraits of Ganesha
(b) by dancing on the roof of her house
(c) by throwing lavish parties for Ganesha
(d) by underwriting the cost of Ganesha celebrations

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

11. Which of the characters becomes enamored first of Leninism and later of Nehru's Party Congress?
(a) Belle
(b) Aires
(c) Epifania
(d) Camoens

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

13. What need does Moraes have to be candid about his parents' sex life?
(a) to explain his madness
(b) to establish his legitimacy
(c) to tell his story fully and candidly
(d) to get even with his family

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What exists in a Benengeli village on a hill?

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

4. How does Moraes classify Epifania's life?

5. What is the literary symbolism of Moraes' nailing his passages along his escape route?

(see the answer keys)

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