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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Moraes' medical problem?

2. What is Aurora's punishment for her mischief?

3. What does Moraes say Aurora became in the annual celebration of Ganesha?

4. How does Aurora react to her portrait?

5. What term of endearment does Aurora use when speaking of Abraham?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of the suicide pill Moor is forced to take half of at the prison?

2. What is unusual about Moor's birth and growth?

3. What does Moraes have to say about his mother and his lover, Uma?

4. How does Aurora manage to upset the Hindu-Muslim population of India?

5. Explain what is special about the blue tiles in the synagogue.

6. How does the war affect Abraham's running of the family spice business?

7. How does Francisco defile Epifania's worship place?

8. How are the three girls, Christina, Inamorata, and Philomena, teased at school?

9. How is Aurora's wish fulfilled in Moraes?

10. Why does Moor have trouble getting to Vasco Miranda in Andalusia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages Expressing Ideas and Feelings through Art. Using the stages of Aurora's painting, discuss the different ways she expressed herself:

(1) feelings about family history, (2) feelings about politics and religion, and (3) feelings about her love for Moor.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages comparing Aurora and Moor with Marge Simpson and Bart. Let you imagination run free in this humorous essay that shows the similarity in Marge's relationship to her "special little guy," and the close relationship Moor has with Aurora before Uma comes on the scene.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on Man's Cruelty to Man. Divide your essay into three parts as follows:

(1) Uma's manipulations and murder plot; (2) the inhumanity of the Indian prison where Moor is incarcerated; (3) the ease with which Moor becomes the Hammer after his experiences with Uma and prison.

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