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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moraes say Aurora found out about the mushroom crone?
(a) she was a well known witch at Lonavla caves
(b) no one had ever heard of her
(c) she was a ghost that people sometimes saw
(d) everyone called her the madwoman

2. Who succeeds in rousing the rabble of Cochin against the unorthodox couple?
(a) D'Aeth
(b) Flory
(c) Vasco Miranda
(d) Aires

3. How is Abraham's physical infirmity introduced?
(a) he often cannot sleep
(b) he feels his chest tighten with asthma
(c) he has to rest if he walks far
(d) he coughs up blood

4. Who was the doorkeeper of Elephanta, Aurora's estate according to Moraes?
(a) bow-legged Lambajan Chandiwala
(b) peg-legged Lambajan Chandiwala
(c) deaf-eared Lambajan Chandiwala
(d) cross-eyed Lambajan Chandiwala

5. What angers Aires by their disappearance?
(a) his little black address and telephone book
(b) his beloved ivories and Ganesha statues
(c) his latest two lovers
(d) his transvestite clothes

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Moraes say helped Aurora when Abraham collapsed?

4. What is the analogy to Rumpelstiltskin?

5. To what does Moraes compare his resting place in the cemetery?

(see the answer key)

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