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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity is occupying Pamela's time?
(a) Holding seances to speak with the dea.
(b) Investigating allegations of witchcraft among the police.
(c) Writing a novel about her experience with Chamcha.
(d) Learning to climb mountains.

2. What fills the zamindar, Mirza Saeed Akhtar, with lust as he stands on the veranda of his house?
(a) A girl who is eating on his lawn and attracting the chameleon butterflies
(b) The Empress Hind doing a sensual dance
(c) The ghost of Rekha dancing on his lawn
(d) His wife, Mishal, taking her morning bath in the fountain

3. What does ellowen deeowen stand for?
(a) LONDON
(b) HALLOWEEN
(c) LOW DONE
(d) EL LO DOWN

4. About what does Sufyan's wife, Hind, assume that her husband agrees with her?
(a) That sex is a dirty business
(b) That their daughters should not see Chamcha
(c) That Chamcha is a freak
(d) That Chamcha is Shaitan himself

5. What is Chamcha's dream from the old days?
(a) Learning how to play the sitar.
(b) Marrying a princess.
(c) Teaching his son to ride a bicycle.
(d) Living in an ivory palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who throws a party on a giant sound stage at Shepperton Studios?

2. Who willed the rescue and who made it happen?

3. What does the specter of Dr. Babington say as he fades into the moonlight?

4. In his dream, what is the new name his mother gives him?

5. Why does Mishal spend so much time with Aeysha?

(see the answer key)

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