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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. Who does Moraes say helped Aurora when Abraham collapsed?
(a) peg-leg Lambajan Chandiwala
(b) an old mushroom-selling crone
(c) a mysterious dark-skinned man
(d) the three girls

2. What is the analogy to Rumpelstiltskin?
(a) Flory gives Abraham a deadline to produce the son
(b) Flory can get more jewels by a spinning wheel
(c) Abraham uses blackmail to get the jewels
(d) Flory demands his firstborn son

3. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?
(a) in a minute mighty Moe
(b) I'm a minna in my moat
(c) eeny, meeny, miney, moe
(d) in a meany minor mow

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

5. Who says, with that God stuff I got scared?
(a) Moraes
(b) Camoens
(c) Epifania
(d) Aires

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows Aurora and Abie to reunite?

2. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?

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

4. What are Epifania's last words?

5. What term of endearment does Aurora use when speaking of Abraham?

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