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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allows Aurora and Abie to reunite?
(a) when Flory gets pregnant with her own child
(b) when Flory loses her remaining faculties
(c) when Flory gives up
(d) when Flory loses the paper her son signed

2. How is Abraham's physical infirmity introduced?
(a) he coughs up blood
(b) he has to rest if he walks far
(c) he often cannot sleep
(d) he feels his chest tighten with asthma

3. 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) for medicine to stunt his growth
(d) to become an apprentice

4. Who is the first person allowed to see the paintings?
(a) her aunt, Carmen
(b) her father, Camoens
(c) her grandmother, Epifania
(d) her uncle, aires

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

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

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

8. 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

9. What does Moraes say Aurora found out about the mushroom crone?
(a) no one had ever heard of her
(b) she was a ghost that people sometimes saw
(c) everyone called her the madwoman
(d) she was a well known witch at Lonavla caves

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

11. What taboo subject does he discuss in chapter 7?
(a) his great uncle's homosexuality
(b) his parents' sexual activity
(c) his mother's nude paintings
(d) his own sexual experiences

12. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?
(a) family history and Indian cultures
(b) the haunting of the house
(c) deep religious convictions
(d) crime and punishment

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

14. What happens that turns Carmen into a nurse for Aires and his lover?
(a) they are both wounded in the war
(b) they both come down with tuberculosis
(c) they both nearly die from asthma attacks
(d) they contract a particularly pernicious strain of syphilis

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the people of Bombay regard Aurora da Gama?

2. Who is Flory Zogoiby's husband and father of her child?

3. What does the argument between Flory and her son reveal to the reader?

4. What foliage does Camoens says is all he need to hear?

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

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