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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moraes say he is doing faster than he should?
(a) telling his story
(b) goinng through time
(c) running from Miranda
(d) breathing hard

2. How does he get the money to restore the business after the losses?
(a) from bank loans
(b) from share cropping the spice fields
(c) from leasing out the company ships
(d) from Flory's treasure chest

3. Besides Aurora's pranks, what convinces Camoens that Belle is haunting the house?
(a) scratch marks on his body
(b) complaints from others that they hear Belle's voice
(c) her face everywhere he looks
(d) a medium who talks to Belle's ghost

4. Why is Moraes estranged from his mother?
(a) a disagreement about religion
(b) a clash over money
(c) a disagreement about art
(d) a clash over his lover, Uma

5. What need does Moraes have to be candid about his parents' sex life?
(a) to get even with his family
(b) to tell his story fully and candidly
(c) to explain his madness
(d) to establish his legitimacy

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens that turns Carmen into a nurse for Aires and his lover?

2. What changes Camoens from Gandhi to Nehru?

3. What exists in a Benengeli village on a hill?

4. What name does Aurora give the painting by Miranda?

5. Who makes a pilgrimage to Malgudi on the river Sarayu, to see the great Mahatma Gandhi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict arose in Camoens when he went to hear Mahatma Gandhi?

2. Why has Aurora been up to so much mischief in the house late at night?

3. How do Aurora and Moor react to the presence of Uma?

4. How does Moor get to know more about his mother and father and their relationship?

5. In the office, what happens to the young 15-year-old heiress?

6. Describe the opening of the novel.

7. How does Moor's rapid maturity physically create a problem in his life?

8. How does Fielding reward Moor, now the Hammer, for his work?

9. What in Miranda's character seem to foreshadow serious problems to come?

10. What is the situation with Sammy Hazaré after Aurora's death?

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