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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the tragedy of the flood?
(a) The crops were all destroyed.
(b) All the houses were flattened.
(c) Fifteen thousand miners were buried alive in the mines.
(d) Most of the children had drowned.

2. What becomes an obsession with Mahound at Tathrib oasis?
(a) War and wealth
(b) Law and rules
(c) Women and girls
(d) Food and feasts

3. On the radio in a taxi, who does Saladin hear speaking?
(a) Winston churchill
(b) Gibreel Farishta
(c) Allie Cone
(d) Eugene Dumsday

4. How does Aeysha turn Mirza Saeed's offer to her favor?
(a) She tells the pilgrims to go home and she will continue alone.
(b) She convinces the pilgrims that Saeed is the Devil.
(c) She tells the pilgrims that she will only go on if they all do.
(d) She refuses to march any further.

5. What is the meaning of Uhuru Simba's name?
(a) Freedom for the Lion
(b) Honor of the Lion
(c) Black is Beautiful
(d) Africans for Freedom

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Aeysha agrees with the Imam?

2. Why do the villagers not turn back as they wade deeper and deeper into the sea?

3. What does Jumpy Joshi think Chamcha, now transformed with horns and goat feet, needs to begin changing back into a man?

4. What two women begin to haunt Saladin's dreams?

5. What does Mr. Qureishi offer his daughter, Mishal?

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