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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What movies affect the behavior of Abraham in his sixties?
(a) Dirty Dancing and Double Indemnity
(b) Casablanca and E.T.
(c) Blade Runner and Star Wars
(d) Hud and Cleopatra

4. In her fifties, what style does Aurora's paintings take?
(a) realism
(b) cubism
(c) pointilism
(d) black and white abstraction

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

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

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

8. From Madrid, where does Moor go?
(a) east to France
(b) south to Andalusia
(c) into Portugal
(d) the Prado museum

9. 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

10. 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) teaching Moor religion
(d) putting Moor on public display

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

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

13. Whose bungalow in a marginal part of town is a shrine to Nadia Wadia?
(a) Moor's
(b) Vasco Miranda's
(c) Abraham Zogoiby's
(d) Sammy Hazaré's

14. What landmark does Moor spot?
(a) the windmills of Don Quixote
(b) the Aldalusian tower
(c) the fairytale tower of Vasco Miranda's Little Alhambra
(d) the Ganesha statue by Miranda

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the mysterious Eduvigis Refugio?

3. What does Moor see in the unfinished painting, The Moor's Last sigh?

4. How does Moraes say he got closer to his mother?

5. What does Moor take with him when he goes?

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