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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moraes tell in the interest of full disclosure about his infancy?
(a) Minnie used to take off all his clothes
(b) he entered puberty at the age of eight
(c) he often watch Vasco Miranda having sex
(d) his mother and sisters had abused him as a baby

2. What happens to the major characters except Moor at the end of chapter 18?
(a) they mostly go into exile
(b) they all die natural deaths
(c) they are all killed
(d) they are imprisoned

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who serves as model for Aurora's Moor paintings?

3. In her fifties, what style does Aurora's paintings take?

4. What do the papers say about Aurora's paintings the morning after her exhibition?

5. How long has Ina been dead when the family attends the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional?

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