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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Abraham announce that he has adopted Adam Braganza, henceforth his "beloved son?"
(a) at Moor's engagement party
(b) at Moor's funeral
(c) at Moor's wedding to Nadia
(d) at the trial of Vasco Miranda

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

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

4. How was aurora really killed?
(a) shooting her with a hypodermic dart as she danced on the wall
(b) by pushing her off the wall as she danced
(c) by giving her LSD before she danced to make her think she could fly
(d) by putting grease on the wall where she was going to dance

5. When did Aurora's and Abraham's conjugal relations cease?
(a) after Aurora meets Vasco Miranda
(b) after Aurora starts dancing on the roof
(c) after Moraes is born
(d) after Abraham has an affair

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

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

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

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

10. What does Moor see in the unfinished painting, The Moor's Last sigh?
(a) Aurora's best painting
(b) a condemnation of himself
(c) a frightened mother reaching out to her son
(d) a door open to reconcilliation

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

12. On the payroll of Mumbai's Axis (MA), what does Moor come to be called?
(a) the Reaper
(b) the Axe
(c) the Sword
(d) the Hammer

13. What happens to the major characters except Moor at the end of chapter 18?
(a) they are all killed
(b) they mostly go into exile
(c) they all die natural deaths
(d) they are imprisoned

14. What does Moor do as Vasco lies hemorrhaging on the floor?
(a) tries to revive Vasco
(b) sits down in confusion
(c) goes to see if Aoi Ué is still alive
(d) frees himself and makes his escape

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Uma say she has loved?

2. Why do Abraham and Moor want to recover Miranda's crude painting Aurora called The Moor's Last Sigh?

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

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

5. From Madrid, where does Moor go?

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