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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Flory die?
(a) she strangles on a spice cake
(b) a madman gives her some poison wine
(c) a madman immolates himself and Flory's robes catch fire
(d) Aurora has her assassinated

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

3. About what does Moraes soliloquize at the beginning of chapter 7?
(a) the fear he has of death
(b) the authentic diversity of India
(c) the reason he is being pursued
(d) the reason for his tale

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

5. 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 recover the painting of young Aurora underneath
(d) to destroy it lest someone think Aurora painted it

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes call the Black Gold of Malabar?

2. What does Moraes say he has already nailed up?

3. What is Dom Minto doing that Moor only senses?

4. What characterizes the strange speech patterns of the family?

5. Who is the married woman and intimately involved with both Jimmy Cash and Abraham Zogoiby, at the same time as with Moor?

(see the answer key)

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