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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the novel take a dark twist in the character of Abraham?
(a) his attempts to kill Moor are revealed
(b) his underworld dealings are revealed
(c) his drug addiction is revealed
(d) his killing of aurora is revealed

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

4. Why does Moor refuse to pose nude for his mother?
(a) he would be unable to hid his hand
(b) he is embarrassed to do so
(c) he only wants to pose nude for Uma
(d) Uma convinces him it would be immoral

5. What secret does Aurora share with Moor?
(a) his inheritance
(b) the combination to her vault
(c) his real father
(d) his father's many infidelities

6. How does Moor perceive Adam?
(a) as a simple minded fool
(b) as a Jewish reformer
(c) as a great artist
(d) a male version of Uma

7. How does Moraes say Abraham tried to influence Aurora?
(a) towards being a better mother
(b) towards accepting religion
(c) towards giving more to charity
(d) towards realism in her art

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

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

10. How does Uma die?
(a) suicide by taking cyanide
(b) by drowning in the ocean
(c) falling out a three storey window
(d) in a car crash

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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Moraes tell in the interest of full disclosure about his infancy?

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

5. What happens to the major characters except Moor at the end of chapter 18?

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