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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Moraes classify his early years?
(a) the best of all worlds
(b) a time of joy
(c) the blink of an eye
(d) a fear-filled childhood

3. Where does Aurora have Miranda paint cartoon murals?
(a) in the chapel
(b) on the nursery walls
(c) on the walls of the spice company
(d) on the outside walls of her mansion

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

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

6. Why does Abraham distance himself from the Jewish community?
(a) because of his love for Aurora
(b) because he cannot stand seeing Flory
(c) because he fears for his life
(d) because he sees visions in the tiles

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

8. What does Aurora look like as a teenager?
(a) a short, beautiful thirteen year old
(b) a short, obese thirteen year old
(c) a tall, thin, thirteen year old
(d) a tall, square thirteen year old

9. What foils the plan to take over the family business?
(a) the British take over the spice business
(b) Canoens gives the business to Leninists
(c) the only grandchild is a girl, Aurora
(d) the brothers file a lawsuit

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

11. 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

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

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

14. How does he get the money to restore the business after the losses?
(a) from Flory's treasure chest
(b) from bank loans
(c) from leasing out the company ships
(d) from share cropping the spice fields

15. Which of the household servants could Aires not touch?
(a) the cooks
(b) the latrine cleaners
(c) the boatmen
(d) the gardeners

Short Answer Questions

1. Speaking of his parents, how does Moraes refer to himself?

2. What does Aurora call the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth?

3. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?

4. Besides Aurora's pranks, what convinces Camoens that Belle is haunting the house?

5. What need does Moraes have to be candid about his parents' sex life?

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