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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) sleeping with Nadia Wadia
(b) extorting money from Abraham
(c) planning to kill Aurora
(d) shadowing him and Aurora

2. How does Abraham lose his children?
(a) two to death, one to Jesus, and one to the power of Evil
(b) three by death and one by disowning
(c) two by marriage, one to communism, and one to prison
(d) one by death, one by insanity, and two to immigration

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

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

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

6. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?
(a) jealous and deceptive
(b) aging, fattening, declining
(c) graying and losing his talent
(d) angry, moody, dying

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 shot exile to England
(b) a brief prison sentence
(c) high praise from the news media
(d) a brief ostracism by India's artistic elite

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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.?

3. Who serves as model for Aurora's Moor paintings?

4. When does Abraham announce that he has adopted Adam Braganza, henceforth his "beloved son?"

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

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