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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the painting of Aurora in Miranda's tower?
(a) Vasco has it hung in his private room
(b) Vasco tosses it into the fire
(c) Vasco shoots it through the heart killing Aoi Ué behind it
(d) Vasco orders Aoi Ué to paint over it

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

3. 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) spin straw into gold
(d) write amusing stories of his past history

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

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

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

7. What does Moraes tell in the interest of full disclosure about his infancy?
(a) he often watch Vasco Miranda having sex
(b) his mother and sisters had abused him as a baby
(c) he entered puberty at the age of eight
(d) Minnie used to take off all his clothes

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

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

10. What is Moor's condition after Uma dies?
(a) he is in Bombay Central, the prison
(b) he is taken ill and almost dies
(c) he is alone on an island
(d) he is back in Aurora's house

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

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

13. On the payroll of Mumbai's Axis (MA), what does Moor come to be called?
(a) the Sword
(b) the Reaper
(c) the Axe
(d) the Hammer

14. Who does Moor say is the woman who transformed, exalted and ruined his life?
(a) Uma Sarasvati
(b) Sister Floreas
(c) Aurora
(d) a prostitute he imports to the city

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret does Aurora share with Moor?

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

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

4. What could Moor have been to his mother because of his advanced aging?

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

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