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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. Where has Moraes left a trail of written narratives?
(a) in safe deposit vaults of several banks
(b) nailed to gates, fences, and trees along his way
(c) in letters to a promanent journalist
(d) in cemeteries from India to Spain

2. Who come to the defense of Aurora and Abraham?
(a) Vasco and Sahara
(b) Aires and Carmen
(c) Flory and D'Aeth
(d) Belle and Carmen

3. What do the British authorities do to Camoens and Aires?
(a) arrest them for treason
(b) fine them for the fire
(c) exile them to Spain
(d) sentence them to 15 years in prison

4. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?
(a) his suicide notes
(b) his last will and testament
(c) his family's secrets
(d) his epic poetry

5. How does Moraes identify his family?
(a) as a family of many different ethnic backgrounds
(b) as great people who administered charties
(c) as heirs to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
(d) as frauds claiming to be what they are not

Short Answer Questions

1. What taboo subject does he discuss in chapter 7?

2. Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

3. What does Moraes say he learns to accept?

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

5. How does Moraes say Aurora became so famous at the Ganesha festival?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moor refer to the dysfunction of his family?

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

3. Why does Moor have trouble getting to Vasco Miranda in Andalusia?

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

5. How are the three girls, Christina, Inamorata, and Philomena, teased at school?

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

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

8. Explain what is special about the blue tiles in the synagogue.

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

10. How does Aurora manage to upset the Hindu-Muslim population of India?

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