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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Moor refuse to pose nude for his mother?
(a) he would be unable to hid his hand
(b) he is embarrassed to do so
(c) he only wants to pose nude for Uma
(d) Uma convinces him it would be immoral

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

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

5. What landmark does Moor spot?
(a) the Ganesha statue by Miranda
(b) the fairytale tower of Vasco Miranda's Little Alhambra
(c) the Aldalusian tower
(d) the windmills of Don Quixote

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

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

8. Who is the character arriving at the end of Chapter 13 that the Moor hints will drive a wedge between him and Aurora?
(a) Ima Silvester
(b) Uma Sarasvati
(c) Ura Sahara
(d) Ida Sorrensen

9. 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) Uma
(c) Mynah
(d) Flory

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

11. What is Aurora's unfinished, unsigned masterpiece?
(a) The Moor's Last Sigh
(b) The Moor in Hell
(c) The Moor's Arrival
(d) The Return of the Moor

12. From Madrid, where does Moor go?
(a) the Prado museum
(b) into Portugal
(c) east to France
(d) south to Andalusia

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

14. Who does Moor meet as the head of Mumbai's Axis?
(a) Hazaré's XI
(b) Lambajan Chandiwala's brother
(c) Raman Fielding
(d) Abraham's bodyguard

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.?

2. Where does Aurora allow Kekoo Mody to mount a retrospective exhibition of her works?

3. How was aurora really killed?

4. What could Moor have been to his mother because of his advanced aging?

5. What does Moraes say Minnie did that horrified Aurora?

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