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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Moor hoping for as he rests in the graveyard in view of Alhambra?
(a) that Felicitas will find him
(b) that his rest will find peace
(c) that Vasco is truly dead
(d) that he can gind help

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

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

12. Who are Felicitas (half Arab) and Renegada (half Jewish)?
(a) local psychics
(b) Helsing's housekeepers
(c) Miranda's housekeepers
(d) local gossips

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

14. What could Moor have been to his mother because of his advanced aging?
(a) a wise instructor
(b) a surrogate father
(c) a contemporary and friend
(d) another burden to care for

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moraes say Abraham finally revealed?

2. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?

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

4. What secret does Aurora share with Moor?

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

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