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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Miranda paint over the portrait of Aurora?
(a) a seascape with spice ships
(b) a portrait of the four children
(c) a self portrait as a weeping Arab on horseback
(d) a painting of Ganesha

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

4. What happened after Flory's son was born?
(a) her husband died
(b) her husband took two more wives
(c) her husband abandoned her
(d) her husband went to prison

5. What does Moraes say Aurora became in the annual celebration of Ganesha?
(a) the lead dancer in the Ganesha procession
(b) the star attraction of the festival she hated
(c) the mad woman of Ganesha
(d) the official artist of Ganesha

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes say was his father's lament?

2. What does the argument between Flory and her son reveal to the reader?

3. Where did Aurora and Abraham have sex the first time?

4. What does Epifania's example cause the rest of the family to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the situation with Sammy Hazaré after Aurora's death?

2. By August 1939, Aurora is the heiress to the da Gama fortune. Why does she storm into the office of the company?

3. Why does Moor lament his life as he continues with his history of the family?

4. How does Francisco defile Epifania's worship place?

5. How does the war affect Abraham's running of the family spice business?

6. What does Moraes have to say about his mother and his lover, Uma?

7. What is the effect of the suicide pill Moor is forced to take half of at the prison?

8. Describe the condition of the middle daughter, Minnie, at the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional.

9. How does Christina turn out as she grows into maturity?

10. How does Moor describe the Reverend Oliver D'Aeth, rector of the church?

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