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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's physical problem?
(a) intollerance of the Indian heat
(b) recurring consumption
(c) acute allergic reaction to spice
(d) serious asthma

2. What characterizes the strange speech patterns of the family?
(a) adding ofy to verbs and o to many nouns
(b) reversing word order in sentences
(c) making up senseless words
(d) speaking breathlessly and staccato

3. What is Aurora's punishment for her mischief?
(a) a public spanking
(b) cancellation of her birthday party
(c) a week's detention in her room
(d) banishment to a convent

4. What does Moraes say about breathing?
(a) breath is the spice of life
(b) life is measured in the breaths we take
(c) babies and crones breathe differently
(d) we inhale the world and breath out meaning

5. How does Moraes classify Epifania's life?
(a) an obvious life of rebellion
(b) a relative life of ease
(c) a contageous life of bitterness
(d) a conspicuous life of prayer

6. Who succeeds in rousing the rabble of Cochin against the unorthodox couple?
(a) Flory
(b) Vasco Miranda
(c) D'Aeth
(d) Aires

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

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

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

10. What exists in a Benengeli village on a hill?
(a) a shrine to St. Helena
(b) a cave of buried treasure
(c) a lighthouse for ships
(d) Vasco Miranda's fortress

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

12. 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

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

14. What are the words Moraes says that Aurora heard but could not see who spoke them?
(a) bibbity bobbity boo
(b) chicken entrails, kingdom come
(c) menchi kaboo, lawanda kazoo
(d) obeah, jadoo, fo, fum

15. Who steps up to claim responsibility for the disappearances of things in the house?
(a) the houseboys
(b) the latrine cleaners
(c) Aurora
(d) the gardeners

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Moraes identify his family?

2. How does Moraes say Lambajan lost his leg?

3. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?

4. Who commissions Miranda to paint a portrait of Aurora and her newborn daughter Ina?

5. Which of the characters becomes enamored first of Leninism and later of Nehru's Party Congress?

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