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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 happens when distant relatives are invited to stay at the da Gama houses?
(a) additions have to be made to the houses
(b) Epifania calms down
(c) war between the families
(d) nephews become interested in the family businesses

2. Where does Aurora have Miranda paint cartoon murals?
(a) in the chapel
(b) on the walls of the spice company
(c) on the outside walls of her mansion
(d) on the nursery walls

3. Who was the doorkeeper of Elephanta, Aurora's estate according to Moraes?
(a) cross-eyed Lambajan Chandiwala
(b) deaf-eared Lambajan Chandiwala
(c) bow-legged Lambajan Chandiwala
(d) peg-legged Lambajan Chandiwala

4. What happens to the chapel after Francisco dies?
(a) it becomes his mausoleum
(b) it is left as a monument to him
(c) it is raxed to the ground
(d) it is restored to its original decor

5. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?
(a) eeny, meeny, miney, moe
(b) in a minute mighty Moe
(c) I'm a minna in my moat
(d) in a meany minor mow

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what is the synagogue famous?

3. Who come to the defense of Aurora and Abraham?

4. What allows Aurora and Abie to reunite?

5. How does Aurora react to her portrait?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why has Aurora been up to so much mischief in the house late at night?

4. How does Moor feel about his parents union?

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

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

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

8. How does Aurora begin her art career?

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

10. How does Moor excuse himself for writing about his parents sex lives?

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