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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the household servants could Aires not touch?
(a) the cooks
(b) the boatmen
(c) the latrine cleaners
(d) the gardeners

2. Where did Aurora and Abraham have sex the first time?
(a) in the office of the da Gama business
(b) in Aurora's bedroom
(c) in the trees at Spice Mountain
(d) in the loft of the spice warehouse

3. In reality, what is Aurora's character?
(a) a mutinous, inventively vicious prankster
(b) a friendly, helpful young lady
(c) a lonely, unhappy artist
(d) a thoughtless gossip

4. What characterizes the strange speech patterns of the family?
(a) speaking breathlessly and staccato
(b) adding ofy to verbs and o to many nouns
(c) making up senseless words
(d) reversing word order in sentences

5. What is the reader not sure of at this point in chapter four?
(a) whether it is disease or Miranda that will kill Moraes
(b) whether or not Moraes is in his right mind
(c) whether Moraes will give his last sigh
(d) whether anyone will find his notes

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first person allowed to see the paintings?

2. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?

3. What is Aurora's punishment for her mischief?

4. Who is Flory Zogoiby's husband and father of her child?

5. Why does Flory Zogoiby object to her son's marrying Aurora?

(see the answer key)

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