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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Moraes see about to disturb the peace of Bombay?
2. What happens to the major characters except Moor at the end of chapter 18?
3. Who is the character arriving at the end of Chapter 13 that the Moor hints will drive a wedge between him and Aurora?
4. What does Moor see in the unfinished painting, The Moor's Last sigh?
5. Who is the married woman and intimately involved with both Jimmy Cash and Abraham Zogoiby, at the same time as with Moor?
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 Rushdie's literary gimmicks. Main points of your essay include:
(1) the odd way the da Gama family adds -o and -ofy to words that symbolize their quirkiness, (2) the rhyming phrases he uses generally to belittle certain characters, (3) long hyphenated phrases to make for more powerful adjectives. Give specific examples of each in your essay.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on Moor as an Unsympathetic Character. Your essay should include the sympathy the reader feels for Moor early in the novel, such as his deformed hand and his aging disease. Gradually, however, he becomes more and more unsympathetic as he allows himself to be manipulated by:
(1) Uma, (2) Lambajan Chandiwala, and (3) Raman Fielding. Conclude your essay giving your opinion whether he is a sympathetic as he lies down in the cemetery to breathe his last sigh.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typed, double spaced pages on Rushdie's take on organized religion. Find in the novel explicit references to Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and show how Rushdie discounts all of them as divisive and something to be avoided.
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