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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What followed Aurora's snubbing of Prime Minister Nehru at the presentation ceremony of the Esteemed Lotus Award for Excellence in the Arts?
(a) high praise from the news media
(b) a brief ostracism by India's artistic elite
(c) a shot exile to England
(d) a brief prison sentence

2. What is seen in Aurora's controversial painting of a young lady and man based on a news report?
(a) a young girl kissing Ganesha
(b) youg girl dancers wearing only bells and bangles
(c) a passionate clinch that was banned in India
(d) a cricket player in the nude

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

4. What is Moor hoping for as he rests in the graveyard in view of Alhambra?
(a) that Vasco is truly dead
(b) that his rest will find peace
(c) that he can gind help
(d) that Felicitas will find him

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 compare it to Aurora's painting of the same name
(d) to destroy it lest someone think Aurora painted it

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What results from Moraes' looking too old for kindergarten and too immature intellectually when it came time for his education?

3. What secret does Aurora share with Moor?

4. When does Abraham announce that he has adopted Adam Braganza, henceforth his "beloved son?"

5. Who is the tutor with whom Moraes has a physical relationship?

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