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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why do Abraham and Moor want to recover Miranda's crude painting Aurora called The Moor's Last Sigh?
(a) to compare it to Aurora's painting of the same name
(b) to recover the painting of young Aurora underneath
(c) to get even with Vasco for running out on them
(d) to destroy it lest someone think Aurora painted it

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

5. Where does Aurora allow Kekoo Mody to mount a retrospective exhibition of her works?
(a) the British Consullate
(b) the Indian Parliament
(c) the Prince of Wales Museum
(d) the Gandhi Museum

6. What could Moor have been to his mother because of his advanced aging?
(a) a surrogate father
(b) a contemporary and friend
(c) another burden to care for
(d) a wise instructor

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

8. 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

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

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

11. What do the papers say about Aurora's paintings the morning after her exhibition?
(a) she is completely ignored
(b) she is blasted as an artistic has-been
(c) she is called an artistic whore
(d) she is called the greatest artist of all time

12. 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

13. What happens at the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional, an annual opportunity for Bombay's cultural elite to gather at the racecourse to see and to be seen.?
(a) Moor meets Uma Sarasvati
(b) Moor misses seeing Uma Sarasvati
(c) Moor hides from Uma Sarasvati
(d) Moor has an asthma attack

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

15. Who does Uma say she has loved?
(a) only herself
(b) not anyone but Moor
(c) only Moor and Jimmy Cashondelivery
(d) only her late husband

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Moor say is the woman who transformed, exalted and ruined his life?

2. How does Moraes say he got closer to his mother?

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

4. Why does Moor refuse to pose nude for his mother?

5. What is Moor hoping for as he rests in the graveyard in view of Alhambra?

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