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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. why do Gibreel and Rosa go into the village to buy a cake and champagne?
(a) For her eighty-ninth birthday
(b) For a celebration of Gibreel's survival
(c) For guests coming to dinner
(d) For New Year's Eve

2. What is Khalid's explanation for the Satanic verses?
(a) That Mahound was testing their loyalty.
(b) That Mahound was forced to say good things about Lat.
(c) That Mahound was under the influence of Hind's drugs.
(d) That Mahound had brought the devil so they could recongize him.

3. How does Hind save her life?
(a) Veiled, she kisses Mahound's foot and says the words of Submission.
(b) She becomes Mahound's wife.
(c) He agrees to have Mahound sleep in her bed.
(d) She disguises herself as a peasant.

4. Why do the villagers not turn back as they wade deeper and deeper into the sea?
(a) They have been drugged by Aeysha.
(b) They have all been hypnotized by the angel.
(c) They think that only the open believers will not be harmed by the water.
(d) They are too proud to return to scorn.

5. What is under Saladin's bowler hat?
(a) Gray hair
(b) His airplane ticket
(c) Two lumps growing out his temples
(d) A starfish

Short Answer Questions

1. Who recognizes Aeysha in the village of Chatnapatna?

2. What is the meaning of Uhuru Simba's name?

3. To what does Rushdie compare the explosion of the jet?

4. What do the Sufyan girls think might be going on with Chamcha?

5. Although Sufyan and Hind now live in a four-storey terraced house, what does she long for?

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