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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. What is Ganesha?
(a) a kind of Hindu offering left before Siva
(b) a special food prepared for Hindu holy days
(c) a type of rare emerald found only in India
(d) a Hindu god with a human body and an elephant head

2. What does the argument between Flory and her son reveal to the reader?
(a) history of the Jewish people to that day
(b) that the Zogoiby family is mortal enemy of da Gama
(c) that the son is consecrated to God
(d) that the son is illegitimate

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

4. What does Aurora become?
(a) a hag like Epifania
(b) an artist of international renown
(c) a dutiful wife
(d) a benefactor of the poor

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From infancy through adolescence, what did Abraham see in the synagogue tiles?

2. What term of endearment does Aurora use when speaking of Abraham?

3. Who commissions Miranda to paint a portrait of Aurora and her newborn daughter Ina?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. By August 1939, Aurora is the heiress to the da Gama fortune. Why does she storm into the office of the company?

3. How does Aurora begin her art career?

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

5. What conflict arose in Camoens when he went to hear Mahatma Gandhi?

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

7. How do readers learn about some important Indian history?

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

9. Returning several decades before Aurora's death, how to readers learn about the arrival of a doorman?

10. How does Abraham's adopted son, Adam, bring down the great house of Zogoiby?

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