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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allows Aurora and Abie to reunite?
(a) when Flory loses her remaining faculties
(b) when Flory loses the paper her son signed
(c) when Flory gets pregnant with her own child
(d) when Flory gives up

2. What does Aurora look like as a teenager?
(a) a tall, thin, thirteen year old
(b) a short, obese thirteen year old
(c) a tall, square thirteen year old
(d) a short, beautiful thirteen year old

3. Where does Aurora have Miranda paint cartoon murals?
(a) on the walls of the spice company
(b) in the chapel
(c) on the outside walls of her mansion
(d) on the nursery walls

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

5. What is the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth's emotional problem?
(a) his fear of his parishioners
(b) his consumming lust for Aurora
(c) his fear of the Jews
(d) his distrust of Aurora

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

7. Why is Moraes estranged from his mother?
(a) a disagreement about religion
(b) a disagreement about art
(c) a clash over his lover, Uma
(d) a clash over money

8. What are Epifania's last words?
(a) a curse on Aurora
(b) a blessing for Aurora
(c) a prayer to St. Francis
(d) a song of praise

9. How does Abie do at first when taking over the family business to run?
(a) he loses three shiploads of spice to German U-boats
(b) he starts doing exclusive business with the Germans
(c) he squanders money until the company nearly fails
(d) he stockpiles spices until they are safe to ship

10. What are the words Moraes says that Aurora heard but could not see who spoke them?
(a) obeah, jadoo, fo, fum
(b) menchi kaboo, lawanda kazoo
(c) chicken entrails, kingdom come
(d) bibbity bobbity boo

11. What happens because of Aurora's political activities?
(a) she is sent to London to stand trial
(b) she is exiled to Italy
(c) she is imprisoned for two years
(d) she is run out of India

12. What does Aurora do locked in her room, allowing no one to enter?
(a) writing a diary
(b) leaving by her window
(c) working on her art
(d) cutting off all her hair

13. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Aires
(b) Epifania
(c) Camoens
(d) Moraes

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

15. What happens when distant relatives are invited to stay at the da Gama houses?
(a) war between the families
(b) nephews become interested in the family businesses
(c) Epifania calms down
(d) additions have to be made to the houses

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Speaking of his parents, how does Moraes refer to himself?

3. What is the analogy to Rumpelstiltskin?

4. What is foreshadowed during Aurora's confinement to her room?

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

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