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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 Aurora's punishment for her mischief?

2. What does Moraes say he learns to accept?

3. After the business is successful again, what does Flory do?

4. What drove a wedge between the between Epifania and her husband and polarized their sons?

5. How does Flory die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What in Miranda's character seem to foreshadow serious problems to come?

2. What is Moor conclusion behind the tragic end of the da Gama-Zogoiby family?

3. How does Abraham's adopted son, Adam, bring down the great house of Zogoiby?

4. Detail the demise of Abraham's mother.

5. Why has Aurora been up to so much mischief in the house late at night?

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

7. How does Aurora begin her art career?

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

9. What is the first thing Epifania does the day after Francisco dies?

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

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 on Characters from The Moor's Last Sigh You Wouldn't Want to Meet in the Dark. This essay will describe in detail some of the unsavory characters of the book. Example of such characters are:

(1) Chhaggan Five-in-a-Bite, (2) Sammy Hazaré, (3) Moor as Hammer, and (4) Vasco Miranda.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on undertones of an Oedipal Complex in The Moor's Last Sigh. Your points include:

(1) an explanation of the Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex, (2) the suggestion of Moor posing nude for Aurora, and (3) the Moor painting where Aurora is Desdemona on the bed and Moor as Othello, lunging at her with a dagger.

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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