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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

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. How does aurora appear on the outside?
(a) as the perfect child
(b) as a noisy troublemaker
(c) as a mentally unballanced child
(d) as a shy child

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?

2. What happens to the chapel after Francisco dies?

3. What foils the plan to take over the family business?

4. In reality, what is Aurora's character?

5. Where does Aurora live?

(see the answer key)

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