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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Moraes describe his feelings for his parents?
(a) a love-hate relationship
(b) hardly ever seeing them
(c) a deep devotion
(d) a constant fear

2. What is Aurora's unfinished, unsigned masterpiece?
(a) The Moor in Hell
(b) The Moor's Last Sigh
(c) The Moor's Arrival
(d) The Return of the Moor

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

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

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

6. 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

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

8. Who does Moor meet as the head of Mumbai's Axis?
(a) Lambajan Chandiwala's brother
(b) Raman Fielding
(c) Hazaré's XI
(d) Abraham's bodyguard

9. 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.?
(a) Moor meets Uma Sarasvati
(b) Moor misses seeing Uma Sarasvati
(c) Moor has an asthma attack
(d) Moor hides from Uma Sarasvati

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

11. Who is the married woman and intimately involved with both Jimmy Cash and Abraham Zogoiby, at the same time as with Moor?
(a) Flory
(b) Suresh
(c) Uma
(d) Mynah

12. What does Moraes say Minnie did that horrified Aurora?
(a) enter the Sisterhood of Maria Gratiaplena
(b) pose nude for Miranda
(c) run away with Vasco Miranda
(d) dance on the roof

13. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?
(a) youg girl dancers wearing only bells and bangles
(b) a cricket player in the nude
(c) a young girl kissing Ganesha
(d) a passionate clinch that was banned in India

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the character arriving at the end of Chapter 13 that the Moor hints will drive a wedge between him and Aurora?

2. What does Miranda order to do that is comparable to the tale of Scheherazade?

3. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?

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

5. Who is the stranger who offers to help Moor get oriented in Andalusia?

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