View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the household servants could Aires not touch?

2. What is represented in Aurora's paintings?

3. What does Moraes tell the reader about the dark side of Vasco Miranda's personality?

4. What happens that turns Carmen into a nurse for Aires and his lover?

5. Where is Moraes Zogoiby at the opening of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Returning several decades before Aurora's death, how to readers learn about the arrival of a doorman?

2. How does Moor feel about his parents union?

3. Because of his medical condition, what does Moor think about?

4. How is Abraham finally successful?

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

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

7. How does Moor refer to the dysfunction of his family?

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

9. How does Moor get to know more about his mother and father and their relationship?

10. How does Vasco Miranda come into the lives of the Zogoiby family?

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 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 2

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages Superstition: How It Affects Human Behavior. In the essay, use these examples:

(1) the annual Ganesha festival and Aurora's disdain for such a superstition, (2) Camoens' superstitions that eventually led him to believe Belle's ghost was haunting the house, and (3) Flory's superstitions that caused her to see visions in the temple tiles that eventually led to her death.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on The Dysfunctional da Gama-Zogoiby Family. In your essay, discuss the following:

(1) in what ways were the family members dysfunctional, (2) how the behavior of one member of the family affected the others, (3) why their dysfunctional behavior could not be changed for the better.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 624 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample