View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?
(a) a passionate clinch that was banned in India
(b) a young girl kissing Ganesha
(c) a cricket player in the nude
(d) youg girl dancers wearing only bells and bangles

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) Flory
(c) Suresh
(d) Uma

6. 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 get even with Vasco for running out on them
(c) to compare it to Aurora's painting of the same name
(d) to destroy it lest someone think Aurora painted it

7. What is Moor hoping for as he rests in the graveyard in view of Alhambra?
(a) that Vasco is truly dead
(b) that his rest will find peace
(c) that Felicitas will find him
(d) that he can gind help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abraham lose his children?

2. How does Moraes say Abraham tried to influence Aurora?

3. Who is the character arriving at the end of Chapter 13 that the Moor hints will drive a wedge between him and Aurora?

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

5. Whose bungalow in a marginal part of town is a shrine to Nadia Wadia?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 612 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample