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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Moraes say Abraham finally revealed?
(a) his Jewish roots
(b) his part in Flory's death
(c) his feeling of entrapment by aurora
(d) the shady deals that had underpinned his economic success

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

5. How long has Ina been dead when the family attends the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional?
(a) forty-one days
(b) three weeks
(c) six months
(d) a year

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

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

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

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

10. What does Moor take with him when he goes?
(a) the ruined painting of his mother
(b) the papers he wrote about his life and some nails
(c) the gun Vasco had in his hand
(d) a small bag of food and a wineskin

11. What results from Moraes' looking too old for kindergarten and too immature intellectually when it came time for his education?
(a) he had to be schooled in Paris
(b) he had to wear a veil
(c) he had to study at night
(d) he had to be home schooled

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

13. Who is the character arriving at the end of Chapter 13 that the Moor hints will drive a wedge between him and Aurora?
(a) Ura Sahara
(b) Ida Sorrensen
(c) Uma Sarasvati
(d) Ima Silvester

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Aurora's and Abraham's conjugal relations cease?

2. Where is Moor at the end of Chapter 18?

3. What secret does Aurora share with Moor?

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

5. What is Aurora's unfinished, unsigned masterpiece?

(see the answer keys)

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