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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Dom Minto doing that Moor only senses?
(a) extorting money from Abraham
(b) sleeping with Nadia Wadia
(c) planning to kill Aurora
(d) shadowing him and Aurora

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is the tutor with whom Moraes has a physical relationship?
(a) Daisy Harman
(b) Dilly Hormuz
(c) Dizzy Hellman
(d) Dolly Hamilton

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

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

12. On the payroll of Mumbai's Axis (MA), what does Moor come to be called?
(a) the Hammer
(b) the Axe
(c) the Sword
(d) the Reaper

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

14. How does Abraham lose his children?
(a) two by marriage, one to communism, and one to prison
(b) two to death, one to Jesus, and one to the power of Evil
(c) one by death, one by insanity, and two to immigration
(d) three by death and one by disowning

15. What does Moor learn that Uma had done to cause his banishment by Abraham and aurora?
(a) taped him raging against them while making love to Uma
(b) concealed Aurora behind a tapestry while she made love to him
(c) paid someone to tell lies about him to Aurora and Abie
(d) had someone photograph him posing nude for her

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the character arriving at the end of Chapter 13 that the Moor hints will drive a wedge between him and Aurora?

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

3. How does the novel take a dark twist in the character of Abraham?

4. What is Aurora's unfinished, unsigned masterpiece?

5. Who is the married woman and intimately involved with both Jimmy Cash and Abraham Zogoiby, at the same time as with Moor?

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