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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?
(a) aging, fattening, declining
(b) angry, moody, dying
(c) jealous and deceptive
(d) graying and losing his talent

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

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

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

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

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

11. Whose bungalow in a marginal part of town is a shrine to Nadia Wadia?
(a) Moor's
(b) Sammy Hazaré's
(c) Abraham Zogoiby's
(d) Vasco Miranda's

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes see about to disturb the peace of Bombay?

2. Who teaches Moraes street fighting?

3. Where does Aurora allow Kekoo Mody to mount a retrospective exhibition of her works?

4. What is Moor's condition after Uma dies?

5. How does Abraham lose his children?

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