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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moor do as Vasco lies hemorrhaging on the floor?
(a) sits down in confusion
(b) frees himself and makes his escape
(c) goes to see if Aoi Ué is still alive
(d) tries to revive Vasco

2. What could Moor have been to his mother because of his advanced aging?
(a) a contemporary and friend
(b) a surrogate father
(c) a wise instructor
(d) another burden to care for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What happens to the major characters except Moor at the end of chapter 18?
(a) they are imprisoned
(b) they mostly go into exile
(c) they all die natural deaths
(d) they are all killed

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do Abraham and Moor want to recover Miranda's crude painting Aurora called The Moor's Last Sigh?

3. Who are Felicitas (half Arab) and Renegada (half Jewish)?

4. How does Uma die?

5. Who teaches Moraes street fighting?

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