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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is odd about the song Gibreel begins to sing?
(a) It is a child's nursery rhyme.
(b) It echoes back into his mouth.
(c) It is a language and a tune he does not know.
(d) It is a song about India as a lost continent.

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

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

4. How does business suddenly boom at The Curtain?
(a) Mahound takes to coming there every day with his closest friends.
(b) The twelve whores assume the names of Mahound's twelve wives.
(c) former priestesses of Al-Lat come to join the whores of The Curtain.
(d) Hind takes over the operation and brings in new girls.

5. Who comes to Hagar to show her the waters of Zamzam?
(a) A camel
(b) Ibrahim
(c) Shaitan
(d) Gibreel as the Archangel

Short Answer Questions

1. At the party, seeing London at Gibreel's feet, what happens to Chamcha?

2. What is Gibreel doing that slows down their descent?

3. Where is the Archangel Gibreel after all the followers of Mahound leave the city?

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

5. What is Chamcha's dream from the old days?

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