The Moor's Last Sigh Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Moor's Last Sigh Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Camoens turn to secularism?
(a) another path would require to much sacrifice
(b) any other path would lead to sectarian violence
(c) in order to spite his mother
(d) the greed of organized religion

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

4. What drove a wedge between the between Epifania and her husband and polarized their sons?
(a) Francisco da Gama's religious fanatacism
(b) Francisco da Gama's strange architecture preferences
(c) Francisco da Gama's scientific experiments
(d) Francisco da Gama's Indian nationalism

5. How does he get the money to restore the business after the losses?
(a) from share cropping the spice fields
(b) from bank loans
(c) from Flory's treasure chest
(d) from leasing out the company ships

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

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

8. How did the people of Bombay regard Aurora da Gama?
(a) as ethereal
(b) as helpless
(c) as demonic
(d) as angelic

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

10. For what is the synagogue famous?
(a) blue tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(b) green tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(c) multi-colored tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling
(d) ivory tiles that cover its floor, walls, and ceiling

11. What name does Aurora give the painting by Miranda?
(a) The Moor's Last Sigh
(b) The Work-o of a Madman
(c) The Spice of Life
(d) The Fool on a Horse

12. Where does Aurora live?
(a) in her grandmother's household
(b) in her own mansion
(c) in her uncle Aires' house
(d) in a small cottage behind Epifania's mansion

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

14. What does the argument between Flory and her son reveal to the reader?
(a) that the Zogoiby family is mortal enemy of da Gama
(b) that the son is consecrated to God
(c) that the son is illegitimate
(d) history of the Jewish people to that day

15. Who steps up to claim responsibility for the disappearances of things in the house?
(a) the gardeners
(b) the houseboys
(c) Aurora
(d) the latrine cleaners

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aurora's goal in all her night time activity?

2. What does Moraes tell the reader about the dark side of Vasco Miranda's personality?

3. Who commissions Miranda to paint a portrait of Aurora and her newborn daughter Ina?

4. From infancy through adolescence, what did Abraham see in the synagogue tiles?

5. What is Aurora's punishment for her mischief?

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