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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?
(a) on a ship in the ocean
(b) a graveyard in Spain
(c) on his deathbed
(d) on top of a mountain

3. Where does Aurora achieve fame for her artwork and her political activities?
(a) Denares
(b) Spain
(c) Calcutta
(d) Bombay

4. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?
(a) his epic poetry
(b) his suicide notes
(c) his family's secrets
(d) his last will and testament

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

6. What does Aurora do to torment her father and uncle?
(a) commit acts of petty theft and vandalism
(b) wail like a ghost at night
(c) leave notes on their doors at night
(d) paint pictures of them nude

7. How does Moraes say Aurora became so famous at the Ganesha festival?
(a) by dancing on the roof of her house
(b) by throwing lavish parties for Ganesha
(c) by underwriting the cost of Ganesha celebrations
(d) by painting protraits of Ganesha

8. What happens in the house after Epifania dies?
(a) it begins to crumble
(b) it is closed up for a month
(c) it becomes merrier
(d) it turns dark

9. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?
(a) deep religious convictions
(b) the haunting of the house
(c) crime and punishment
(d) family history and Indian cultures

10. What happens that turns Carmen into a nurse for Aires and his lover?
(a) they both come down with tuberculosis
(b) they are both wounded in the war
(c) they contract a particularly pernicious strain of syphilis
(d) they both nearly die from asthma attacks

11. How does Moraes identify his family?
(a) as frauds claiming to be what they are not
(b) as a family of many different ethnic backgrounds
(c) as heirs to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
(d) as great people who administered charties

12. Who come to the defense of Aurora and Abraham?
(a) Aires and Carmen
(b) Flory and D'Aeth
(c) Belle and Carmen
(d) Vasco and Sahara

13. What does Epifania's example cause the rest of the family to do?
(a) fear her connection to God
(b) throw off organized religion
(c) join in her religious devotion
(d) take up Catholicism

14. How does Vasco Miranda enter the narrative?
(a) as competition to Aurora
(b) as the new driver
(c) as a pet of Aurora's
(d) as a tutor for the children

15. What does the family legend say is in Flory's treasure chest?
(a) a four hundred year old crown
(b) a golden statue of Siva
(c) diamonds from Africa
(d) gold smuggled out of Spain

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reader not sure of at this point in chapter four?

2. Where has Moraes left a trail of written narratives?

3. What name does Aurora give the painting by Miranda?

4. With whom does Epifania conspire to gain control of the family business?

5. What allows Aurora and Abie to reunite?

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