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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the business is successful again, what does Flory do?
(a) gives Aurora a love potion to make her conceive
(b) brings the police to demand her payment
(c) takes the written promise of the son to Aurora
(d) threatens to kill Abraham

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

3. What does Moraes say was his father's lament?
(a) being an old father
(b) trying to keep up with Aurora
(c) ever having married Aurora
(d) having to rest and catch his breath

4. How does Moraes refer to the saga of his family?
(a) the legends of the battling da Gamas of Cochin
(b) the times of the crazy da Gamas of Cochin
(c) the legends of the peppery da Gamas of Cochin
(d) the spice of the legendary da Gamas of Cochin

5. How does Epifania classify the renovated chapel?
(a) as fitting for a birthday cake
(b) as fitting for an art gallery
(c) as fitting for a king
(d) as fitting for the body and blood of Christ

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

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

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

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

10. What foliage does Camoens says is all he need to hear?
(a) olive trees
(b) bougainvillias
(c) his family tree
(d) spice plants

11. What shadowy figure is alluded to in Chapter 6?
(a) Vasco da Gama
(b) Flory Roary
(c) Laslo Miranda
(d) Vasco Miranda

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

13. 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 Indian nationalism
(c) Francisco da Gama's religious fanatacism
(d) Francisco da Gama's strange architecture preferences

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

15. Why does she open the windows at night?
(a) to listen to the nightingales
(b) to let in boys who visit her at night
(c) to let in mosquitos to torment Epifania
(d) to let in the moonlight

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aurora witness in the chapel?

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

3. How does Moraes say Lambajan lost his leg?

4. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?

5. The heiress to the da Gama fortune, Aurora falls in love with what older man?

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