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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Moraes say Abraham tried to influence Aurora?
(a) towards accepting religion
(b) towards being a better mother
(c) towards giving more to charity
(d) towards realism in her art

2. How does Moor perceive Adam?
(a) a male version of Uma
(b) as a great artist
(c) as a Jewish reformer
(d) as a simple minded fool

3. What followed Aurora's snubbing of Prime Minister Nehru at the presentation ceremony of the Esteemed Lotus Award for Excellence in the Arts?
(a) high praise from the news media
(b) a shot exile to England
(c) a brief prison sentence
(d) a brief ostracism by India's artistic elite

4. Why do Abraham and Moor want to recover Miranda's crude painting Aurora called The Moor's Last Sigh?
(a) to compare it to Aurora's painting of the same name
(b) to get even with Vasco for running out on them
(c) to destroy it lest someone think Aurora painted it
(d) to recover the painting of young Aurora underneath

5. Who does Moor meet as the head of Mumbai's Axis?
(a) Hazaré's XI
(b) Raman Fielding
(c) Lambajan Chandiwala's brother
(d) Abraham's bodyguard

6. When did Aurora's and Abraham's conjugal relations cease?
(a) after Aurora meets Vasco Miranda
(b) after Moraes is born
(c) after Abraham has an affair
(d) after Aurora starts dancing on the roof

7. What does Moraes say Minnie did that horrified Aurora?
(a) pose nude for Miranda
(b) enter the Sisterhood of Maria Gratiaplena
(c) dance on the roof
(d) run away with Vasco Miranda

8. What is Aurora's unfinished, unsigned masterpiece?
(a) The Moor's Arrival
(b) The Moor in Hell
(c) The Return of the Moor
(d) The Moor's Last Sigh

9. On the payroll of Mumbai's Axis (MA), what does Moor come to be called?
(a) the Reaper
(b) the Axe
(c) the Hammer
(d) the Sword

10. How does Moraes describe his feelings for his parents?
(a) a love-hate relationship
(b) a deep devotion
(c) a constant fear
(d) hardly ever seeing them

11. How does Moraes say he got closer to his mother?
(a) modeling for her
(b) listening to her poems
(c) studying her paintings
(d) asking his father

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

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

14. Who is the character arriving at the end of Chapter 13 that the Moor hints will drive a wedge between him and Aurora?
(a) Uma Sarasvati
(b) Ima Silvester
(c) Ura Sahara
(d) Ida Sorrensen

15. What does Miranda order to do that is comparable to the tale of Scheherazade?
(a) spin straw into gold
(b) write amusing stories of his past history
(c) remain locked up in the tower
(d) serenade Miranda every night

Short Answer Questions

1. How was aurora really killed?

2. How long has Ina been dead when the family attends the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional?

3. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?

4. What does Moor do as Vasco lies hemorrhaging on the floor?

5. How does the novel take a dark twist in the character of Abraham?

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