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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. To what does Moraes compare his resting place in the cemetery?
(a) the death of Socrates
(b) the Mount of Olives
(c) the home of Dracula
(d) the home of the undead

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

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

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

5. What does Aurora do locked in her room, allowing no one to enter?
(a) cutting off all her hair
(b) leaving by her window
(c) working on her art
(d) writing a diary

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes say was his father's lament?

2. About what does Moraes soliloquize at the beginning of chapter 7?

3. For what is the synagogue famous?

4. What does Aurora look like as a teenager?

5. What is a likely reason Flory had made her money?

Short Essay Questions

1. After gaining entry into Vasco's house, what prevents Miranda from killing Moor?

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

3. Describe Flory's condition for giving Abraham the emeralds.

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

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

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

7. Debunking his father's family history, what does Moor suggest about his late grandmother, Flory.

8. What does Moor say are the quirks of Epifania's sons, Aires and Camoens?

9. How is Abraham finally successful?

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

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