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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Abraham uses blackmail to get the jewels
(d) Flory demands his firstborn son

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

4. Why does Aurora take her son to Lord Khusro Khusrovani Bhagwan and his charlatan mother-manager?
(a) for a metaphysical encounter
(b) to become an apprentice
(c) for a miracle healing of his hand
(d) for medicine to stunt his growth

5. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?
(a) her current lover
(b) her daughters-in-law, Belle and Carmen
(c) her granddaughter, Aurora
(d) the foreman at the family business

6. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?
(a) the arguments between families
(b) the heatwave that killed the crops
(c) the anger of Epifania
(d) the fire at Spice Mountains

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

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

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

10. What is Ganesha?
(a) a Hindu god with a human body and an elephant head
(b) a special food prepared for Hindu holy days
(c) a kind of Hindu offering left before Siva
(d) a type of rare emerald found only in India

11. What does Aurora do to torment her father and uncle?
(a) wail like a ghost at night
(b) leave notes on their doors at night
(c) commit acts of petty theft and vandalism
(d) paint pictures of them nude

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

13. How did Francisco leave his estate and the Gama Trading Company?
(a) half to his family and half to the nationalist movement
(b) equally divided between his two sons
(c) totally to Epifania
(d) to a charity for homeless Indians

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In reality, what is Aurora's character?

2. What does Aurora look like as a teenager?

3. What does Aurora become?

4. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?

5. What name does Aurora give the painting by Miranda?

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