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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moor see in the unfinished painting, The Moor's Last sigh?
(a) a frightened mother reaching out to her son
(b) a door open to reconcilliation
(c) Aurora's best painting
(d) a condemnation of himself

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

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

4. What followed Aurora's snubbing of Prime Minister Nehru at the presentation ceremony of the Esteemed Lotus Award for Excellence in the Arts?
(a) a brief ostracism by India's artistic elite
(b) a brief prison sentence
(c) high praise from the news media
(d) a shot exile to England

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when Vasco turns the gun on Moor?
(a) the gun misfires
(b) Moor uses his fighting technique to kick it away
(c) he laughs and leaves Moor with the dead woman
(d) he collapses before he can fire

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

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

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

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

14. How does the novel take a dark twist in the character of Abraham?
(a) his killing of aurora is revealed
(b) his drug addiction is revealed
(c) his attempts to kill Moor are revealed
(d) his underworld dealings are revealed

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Moor meet as the head of Mumbai's Axis?

4. What movies affect the behavior of Abraham in his sixties?

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

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