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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Moor say is the woman who transformed, exalted and ruined his life?
(a) Uma Sarasvati
(b) Aurora
(c) Sister Floreas
(d) a prostitute he imports to the city

2. Where does Aurora allow Kekoo Mody to mount a retrospective exhibition of her works?
(a) the British Consullate
(b) the Prince of Wales Museum
(c) the Gandhi Museum
(d) the Indian Parliament

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

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

5. When does Abraham announce that he has adopted Adam Braganza, henceforth his "beloved son?"
(a) at the trial of Vasco Miranda
(b) at Moor's funeral
(c) at Moor's wedding to Nadia
(d) at Moor's engagement party

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. What was Jaya Hé caught doing that ended her job as tutor to Moor?
(a) teaching Moor religion
(b) putting Moor on public display
(c) stealing household objects for pawn
(d) having sex with Moor

8. How does the novel take a dark twist in the character of Abraham?
(a) his attempts to kill Moor are revealed
(b) his killing of aurora is revealed
(c) his underworld dealings are revealed
(d) his drug addiction is revealed

9. How does Moraes depict the city of Bombay?
(a) as the nexus of Indian culture
(b) as the blight of Indian culture
(c) as the pit of poverty
(d) as the dregs of humanity

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

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

12. How was aurora really killed?
(a) by putting grease on the wall where she was going to dance
(b) by pushing her off the wall as she danced
(c) shooting her with a hypodermic dart as she danced on the wall
(d) by giving her LSD before she danced to make her think she could fly

13. 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) a condemnation of himself
(d) Aurora's best painting

14. How does Moor perceive Adam?
(a) as a simple minded fool
(b) a male version of Uma
(c) as a great artist
(d) as a Jewish reformer

15. What does Uma tell Moor about Keeko Mody, Vasco Miranda, and Raman Fielding?
(a) they are his father's lovers
(b) they were all his mothers lovers
(c) they are spies for the government
(d) they are stealing from Aurora

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Moraes see about to disturb the peace of Bombay?

3. What does Moraes say Abraham finally revealed?

4. What movies affect the behavior of Abraham in his sixties?

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

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