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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Moraes depict the city of Bombay?
(a) as the dregs of humanity
(b) as the nexus of Indian culture
(c) as the blight of Indian culture
(d) as the pit of poverty

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

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

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

5. Who comes to rescue Moor?
(a) Lambajan Chandiwala spirits him out of jail
(b) Minnie nurses him back to health
(c) Abraham saves him from Aurora's wrath
(d) Abraham finds him on the island and brings him back

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

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

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

9. What movies affect the behavior of Abraham in his sixties?
(a) Casablanca and E.T.
(b) Blade Runner and Star Wars
(c) Dirty Dancing and Double Indemnity
(d) Hud and Cleopatra

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

11. In her fifties, what style does Aurora's paintings take?
(a) realism
(b) pointilism
(c) cubism
(d) black and white abstraction

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

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 starts dancing on the roof
(d) after Aurora meets Vasco Miranda

14. What does Moraes see about to disturb the peace of Bombay?
(a) a conflict of major religions
(b) two power centers that loomed around Aurora Zogoiby
(c) capitalism and poverty
(d) terrorism trying to divide the people

15. 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) high praise from the news media
(c) a shot exile to England
(d) a brief prison sentence

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Moor's condition after Uma dies?

3. How does Abraham lose his children?

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

5. Who is the tutor with whom Moraes has a physical relationship?

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