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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. How does Moraes say Lambajan lost his leg?
(a) Aurora's driver ran over him
(b) a shark got him swimming in the ocean
(c) Aurora ran over it in her Buick
(d) it was shot off in the war

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

3. 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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?

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

3. What does Epifania's example cause the rest of the family to do?

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

5. Why does Abraham distance himself from the Jewish community?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the war affect Abraham's running of the family spice business?

3. How does Aurora begin her art career?

4. What does the once-renowned private investigator, Dom Minto, find out about Uma?

5. What is Moor conclusion behind the tragic end of the da Gama-Zogoiby family?

6. How is Abraham finally successful?

7. By 1987, what is the annual ritual Aurora performs that eventually leads to her death.

8. Who comes to the rescue when Aires is physically abusing the servants over lost artifacts?

9. What is the transformation of Abraham?

10. What is the fitting scene of Moor at the end of the novel?

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