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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the married woman and intimately involved with both Jimmy Cash and Abraham Zogoiby, at the same time as with Moor?
(a) Suresh
(b) Flory
(c) Uma
(d) Mynah

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

3. 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 engagement party
(c) at Moor's wedding to Nadia
(d) at Moor's funeral

4. How long has Ina been dead when the family attends the Mahalaxmi Weekend Constitutional?
(a) a year
(b) three weeks
(c) forty-one days
(d) six months

5. Why do Abraham and Moor want to recover Miranda's crude painting Aurora called The Moor's Last Sigh?
(a) to get even with Vasco for running out on them
(b) to recover the painting of young Aurora underneath
(c) to destroy it lest someone think Aurora painted it
(d) to compare it to Aurora's painting of the same name

6. What does Moraes say Minnie did that horrified Aurora?
(a) run away with Vasco Miranda
(b) enter the Sisterhood of Maria Gratiaplena
(c) dance on the roof
(d) pose nude for Miranda

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

8. Who teaches Moraes street fighting?
(a) Jaya Hé, an older tutor
(b) Lambajan Chandiwala
(c) Vasco Miranda
(d) Lambajan, a former bare-knuckle boxer

9. 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 drug addiction is revealed
(d) his underworld dealings are revealed

10. What does Moor see in the unfinished painting, The Moor's Last sigh?
(a) a frightened mother reaching out to her son
(b) Aurora's best painting
(c) a condemnation of himself
(d) a door open to reconcilliation

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

12. What is the condition of Vasco Miranda as Uma joins the household?
(a) angry, moody, dying
(b) graying and losing his talent
(c) aging, fattening, declining
(d) jealous and deceptive

13. 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

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

15. Who is the mysterious Eduvigis Refugio?
(a) an imposter or imagined airline hostess
(b) Moor's last wife
(c) an alter ego of Nadia Wadia
(d) the ghost of Uma

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Uma say she has loved?

2. Who is the stranger who offers to help Moor get oriented in Andalusia?

3. Who comes to rescue Moor?

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

5. What happens to the major characters except Moor at the end of chapter 18?

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