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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's emotional problem?
(a) his fear of his parishioners
(b) his consumming lust for Aurora
(c) his fear of the Jews
(d) his distrust of Aurora

2. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's physical problem?
(a) recurring consumption
(b) acute allergic reaction to spice
(c) intollerance of the Indian heat
(d) serious asthma

3. How does Moraes say he is living?
(a) in slow motion
(b) double quick
(c) without a home
(d) alone

4. What does Moraes tell in the interest of full disclosure about his infancy?
(a) his mother and sisters had abused him as a baby
(b) Minnie used to take off all his clothes
(c) he often watch Vasco Miranda having sex
(d) he entered puberty at the age of eight

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?

2. Who eventually gains control of the family businesses?

3. How does Epifania classify the renovated chapel?

4. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?

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

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