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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moraes say about breathing?
(a) breath is the spice of life
(b) we inhale the world and breath out meaning
(c) life is measured in the breaths we take
(d) babies and crones breathe differently

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

3. What does Moraes call the Black Gold of Malabar?
(a) onyx
(b) pepper
(c) oil
(d) ebony

4. Who is the first person allowed to see the paintings?
(a) her uncle, aires
(b) her grandmother, Epifania
(c) her aunt, Carmen
(d) her father, Camoens

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does aurora appear on the outside?

2. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?

3. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?

4. What does Aurora do to torment her father and uncle?

5. What characterizes the strange speech patterns of the family?

(see the answer key)

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