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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What landmark does Moor spot?
(a) the fairytale tower of Vasco Miranda's Little Alhambra
(b) the Ganesha statue by Miranda
(c) the windmills of Don Quixote
(d) the Aldalusian tower

2. Where is Moor at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) at the bottom of a well, slowly drowning
(b) on a too cold floor staring at the muzzle of a gun
(c) in a graveyard looking at Miranda's gravestone
(d) kneeling with a gun pressed against the back of his head

3. What does Moor take with him when he goes?
(a) the gun Vasco had in his hand
(b) the papers he wrote about his life and some nails
(c) the ruined painting of his mother
(d) a small bag of food and a wineskin

4. What movies affect the behavior of Abraham in his sixties?
(a) Blade Runner and Star Wars
(b) Casablanca and E.T.
(c) Dirty Dancing and Double Indemnity
(d) Hud and Cleopatra

5. What is Moor hoping for as he rests in the graveyard in view of Alhambra?
(a) that Vasco is truly dead
(b) that Felicitas will find him
(c) that he can gind help
(d) that his rest will find peace

6. How was aurora really killed?
(a) by giving her LSD before she danced to make her think she could fly
(b) shooting her with a hypodermic dart as she danced on the wall
(c) by pushing her off the wall as she danced
(d) by putting grease on the wall where she was going to dance

7. Who is the tutor with whom Moraes has a physical relationship?
(a) Dizzy Hellman
(b) Daisy Harman
(c) Dolly Hamilton
(d) Dilly Hormuz

8. Who teaches Moraes street fighting?
(a) Jaya Hé, an older tutor
(b) Lambajan, a former bare-knuckle boxer
(c) Vasco Miranda
(d) Lambajan Chandiwala

9. Who does Uma say she has loved?
(a) only her late husband
(b) only Moor and Jimmy Cashondelivery
(c) only herself
(d) not anyone but Moor

10. Who is the married woman and intimately involved with both Jimmy Cash and Abraham Zogoiby, at the same time as with Moor?
(a) Flory
(b) Mynah
(c) Uma
(d) Suresh

11. Who is the mysterious Eduvigis Refugio?
(a) an alter ego of Nadia Wadia
(b) the ghost of Uma
(c) an imposter or imagined airline hostess
(d) Moor's last wife

12. What was Jaya Hé caught doing that ended her job as tutor to Moor?
(a) stealing household objects for pawn
(b) teaching Moor religion
(c) having sex with Moor
(d) putting Moor on public display

13. Who does Moor say is the woman who transformed, exalted and ruined his life?
(a) a prostitute he imports to the city
(b) Aurora
(c) Sister Floreas
(d) Uma Sarasvati

14. What does Uma tell Moor about Keeko Mody, Vasco Miranda, and Raman Fielding?
(a) they are stealing from Aurora
(b) they were all his mothers lovers
(c) they are his father's lovers
(d) they are spies for the government

15. What does Moraes say Abraham finally revealed?
(a) his part in Flory's death
(b) his feeling of entrapment by aurora
(c) his Jewish roots
(d) the shady deals that had underpinned his economic success

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Moor refuse to pose nude for his mother?

2. What happens to the painting of Aurora in Miranda's tower?

3. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?

4. Who comes to rescue Moor?

5. What do the papers say about Aurora's paintings the morning after her exhibition?

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