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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Moraes refer to as the sub-condiment?

2. What was like the largest, hottest dish of curry ever cooked?

3. Which of the characters becomes enamored first of Leninism and later of Nehru's Party Congress?

4. To what does Moraes compare his resting place in the cemetery?

5. Who is the person he begins his narrative with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aurora begin her art career?

2. Describe Flory's condition for giving Abraham the emeralds.

3. Detail the demise of Abraham's mother.

4. By 1987, what is the annual ritual Aurora performs that eventually leads to her death.

5. How are the three girls, Christina, Inamorata, and Philomena, teased at school?

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

7. What does Moor say are the quirks of Epifania's sons, Aires and Camoens?

8. Explain Francisco da Gama's beliefs that drive wedges between family members.

9. What is the curse Epifania puts on Aurora as she sits there watching the old woman die without trying to help her in any way.

10. What is the first thing Epifania does the day after Francisco dies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on Moral Lessons in The Moor's Last Sigh. Begin your essay by defining moral lessons in obvious works such as Aesop's Fables. Select three characters from the novel to show how eventually each one pays for bad behavior. Include Sammy Hazaré who pays for his hatred by killing himself as a suicide bomber.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on Power and Greed. Your essay should include the element of ruthlessness in the characters of Aurora, Abraham, Uma, and fielding. Give an opinion on how power corrupts each of those characters. Sum up with the end results of overreaching one's limitations.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on Characters from The Moor's Last Sigh You Wouldn't Want to Meet in the Dark. This essay will describe in detail some of the unsavory characters of the book. Example of such characters are:

(1) Chhaggan Five-in-a-Bite, (2) Sammy Hazaré, (3) Moor as Hammer, and (4) Vasco Miranda.

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