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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Moraes depict the city of Bombay?
(a) as the blight of Indian culture
(b) as the dregs of humanity
(c) as the pit of poverty
(d) as the nexus of Indian culture

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

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

5. 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) Abraham saves him from Aurora's wrath
(d) Minnie nurses him back to health

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

7. Why does Moor refuse to pose nude for his mother?
(a) Uma convinces him it would be immoral
(b) he is embarrassed to do so
(c) he would be unable to hid his hand
(d) he only wants to pose nude for Uma

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

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

10. Who serves as model for Aurora's Moor paintings?
(a) Vasco
(b) Abraham
(c) Lambajan
(d) Moraes

11. What secret does Aurora share with Moor?
(a) the combination to her vault
(b) his father's many infidelities
(c) his real father
(d) his inheritance

12. How does Abraham lose his children?
(a) two to death, one to Jesus, and one to the power of Evil
(b) three by death and one by disowning
(c) two by marriage, one to communism, and one to prison
(d) one by death, one by insanity, and two to immigration

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Moor say is the woman who transformed, exalted and ruined his life?

5. What results from Moraes' looking too old for kindergarten and too immature intellectually when it came time for his education?

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