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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Felicitas (half Arab) and Renegada (half Jewish)?
(a) Helsing's housekeepers
(b) local gossips
(c) Miranda's housekeepers
(d) local psychics

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

3. What is Dom Minto doing that Moor only senses?
(a) sleeping with Nadia Wadia
(b) extorting money from Abraham
(c) shadowing him and Aurora
(d) planning to kill Aurora

4. When does Abraham announce that he has adopted Adam Braganza, henceforth his "beloved son?"
(a) at Moor's engagement party
(b) at Moor's funeral
(c) at Moor's wedding to Nadia
(d) at the trial of Vasco Miranda

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

6. What happens at the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional, an annual opportunity for Bombay's cultural elite to gather at the racecourse to see and to be seen.?
(a) Moor has an asthma attack
(b) Moor hides from Uma Sarasvati
(c) Moor misses seeing Uma Sarasvati
(d) Moor meets Uma Sarasvati

7. What does Moor see in the unfinished painting, The Moor's Last sigh?
(a) a door open to reconcilliation
(b) Aurora's best painting
(c) a condemnation of himself
(d) a frightened mother reaching out to her son

8. What results from Moraes' looking too old for kindergarten and too immature intellectually when it came time for his education?
(a) he had to study at night
(b) he had to be home schooled
(c) he had to be schooled in Paris
(d) he had to wear a veil

9. How does Uma die?
(a) in a car crash
(b) falling out a three storey window
(c) by drowning in the ocean
(d) suicide by taking cyanide

10. What does Moraes see about to disturb the peace of Bombay?
(a) two power centers that loomed around Aurora Zogoiby
(b) capitalism and poverty
(c) a conflict of major religions
(d) terrorism trying to divide the people

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

12. How long has Ina been dead when the family attends the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional?
(a) three weeks
(b) forty-one days
(c) six months
(d) a year

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

14. Who comes to rescue Moor?
(a) Abraham finds him on the island and brings him back
(b) Lambajan Chandiwala spirits him out of jail
(c) Minnie nurses him back to health
(d) Abraham saves him from Aurora's wrath

15. From Madrid, where does Moor go?
(a) east to France
(b) the Prado museum
(c) south to Andalusia
(d) into Portugal

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Vasco turns the gun on Moor?

2. How does Moraes say he got closer to his mother?

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

4. Who is the tutor with whom Moraes has a physical relationship?

5. Whose bungalow in a marginal part of town is a shrine to Nadia Wadia?

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