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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the stranger who offers to help Moor get oriented in Andalusia?
(a) Eduvigis Refugio
(b) Gottfried Helsing
(c) Felicitas Larios
(d) Renegada

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

5. Who is the married woman and intimately involved with both Jimmy Cash and Abraham Zogoiby, at the same time as with Moor?
(a) Mynah
(b) Uma
(c) Flory
(d) Suresh

6. When did Aurora's and Abraham's conjugal relations cease?
(a) after Aurora starts dancing on the roof
(b) after Abraham has an affair
(c) after Aurora meets Vasco Miranda
(d) after Moraes is born

7. What does Moor take with him when he goes?
(a) the ruined painting of his mother
(b) a small bag of food and a wineskin
(c) the papers he wrote about his life and some nails
(d) the gun Vasco had in his hand

8. Why do Abraham and Moor want to recover Miranda's crude painting Aurora called The Moor's Last Sigh?
(a) to recover the painting of young Aurora underneath
(b) to destroy it lest someone think Aurora painted it
(c) to compare it to Aurora's painting of the same name
(d) to get even with Vasco for running out on them

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

10. How does Moraes describe his feelings for his parents?
(a) a deep devotion
(b) a constant fear
(c) hardly ever seeing them
(d) a love-hate relationship

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

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

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

14. 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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uma tell Moor about Keeko Mody, Vasco Miranda, and Raman Fielding?

2. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?

3. Who comes to rescue Moor?

4. What do the papers say about Aurora's paintings the morning after her exhibition?

5. What does Moraes tell in the interest of full disclosure about his infancy?

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