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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Epifania
(b) Moraes
(c) Aires
(d) Camoens

2. What did Francisco da Gama do to the family chapel?
(a) decorate it Hindu style
(b) change it to a sterile, modernist motif
(c) change it into an office
(d) tear it down and put up a Buddhist temple

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

4. Who is the person he begins his narrative with?
(a) his grandmother, Isabella Ximena Souza da Gama
(b) his mother, Aurora
(c) homosexual great uncle, Aires da Gama
(d) his father, Abraham Zogoiby

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aurora take her son to Lord Khusro Khusrovani Bhagwan and his charlatan mother-manager?

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

3. Where has Moraes left a trail of written narratives?

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

5. What do Aurora's pranks make Camoens believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moor feel about his parents union?

2. What is the effect of the suicide pill Moor is forced to take half of at the prison?

3. How does Christina turn out as she grows into maturity?

4. As Aurora's popularity wanes, what does she do with her life?

5. How is Aurora's wish fulfilled in Moraes?

6. What in Miranda's character seem to foreshadow serious problems to come?

7. What evidence does Camoens have that the ghost of his late wife is still in the house?

8. How does Moor describe the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth, rector of the church?

9. How does Moor get to know more about his mother and father and their relationship?

10. What does Moraes have to say about his mother and his lover, Uma?

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