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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changes Camoens from Gandhi to Nehru?
(a) Nehru's simple dress in a white sheet
(b) Nehru's time spent in prison
(c) business, technology, progress, and modernity
(d) British acceptance of Gandhi

2. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?
(a) the anger of Epifania
(b) the heatwave that killed the crops
(c) the fire at Spice Mountains
(d) the arguments between families

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

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

5. What does Moraes say was his father's lament?
(a) being an old father
(b) trying to keep up with Aurora
(c) ever having married Aurora
(d) having to rest and catch his breath

6. What taboo subject does he discuss in chapter 7?
(a) his mother's nude paintings
(b) his great uncle's homosexuality
(c) his parents' sexual activity
(d) his own sexual experiences

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

8. What is Moraes' physical deformity at birth?
(a) crossed eyes
(b) over large ears
(c) a deformed right hand
(d) a club foot

9. What happens to the chapel after Francisco dies?
(a) it is left as a monument to him
(b) it is restored to its original decor
(c) it is raxed to the ground
(d) it becomes his mausoleum

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

11. What is foreshadowed during Aurora's confinement to her room?
(a) that she will be a noted singer
(b) that she will be a great writer
(c) that she will be a great artist
(d) that she will be a great politician

12. What does Aurora call the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth?
(a) Ollie Verdathe
(b) A Liver Death
(c) O Livid Earth
(d) Allover Death

13. What is Aurora's goal in all her night time activity?
(a) to have a good laugh
(b) to kill her grandmother
(c) to terrorize her father
(d) to belittle her uncle

14. What does Moraes say about breathing?
(a) we inhale the world and breath out meaning
(b) babies and crones breathe differently
(c) life is measured in the breaths we take
(d) breath is the spice of life

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the play on words in the names of Aurora's four children, Ina, Minnie, Mynah, and Moor?

2. Who eventually gains control of the family businesses?

3. What does Moraes lament?

4. What happens because of Aurora's political activities?

5. How does Moraes say his mother died?

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