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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How was aurora really killed?
(a) by putting grease on the wall where she was going to dance
(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 giving her LSD before she danced to make her think she could fly

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

9. What does Moor learn that Uma had done to cause his banishment by Abraham and aurora?
(a) paid someone to tell lies about him to Aurora and Abie
(b) had someone photograph him posing nude for her
(c) concealed Aurora behind a tapestry while she made love to him
(d) taped him raging against them while making love to Uma

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

11. 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

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

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

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

15. What does Moraes say Minnie did that horrified Aurora?
(a) pose nude for Miranda
(b) enter the Sisterhood of Maria Gratiaplena
(c) dance on the roof
(d) run away with Vasco Miranda

Short Answer Questions

1. On the payroll of Mumbai's Axis (MA), what does Moor come to be called?

2. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?

3. What does Miranda order to do that is comparable to the tale of Scheherazade?

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

5. Who is the stranger who offers to help Moor get oriented in Andalusia?

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