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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 the greatest artist of all time
(d) she is called an artistic whore

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Uma tell Moor about Keeko Mody, Vasco Miranda, and Raman Fielding?

3. What does Moraes say Abraham finally revealed?

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

5. What does Moor learn that Uma had done to cause his banishment by Abraham and aurora?

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