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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is impossible for Gibreel and Chamcha to do, yet they do?
(a) Slow down their descent
(b) Fly like a kite
(c) Jump over each others
(d) Hear each other

2. Where does Mahound go after he leaves Hind's chambers?
(a) Back up Mount Cone.
(b) To get a drink from the well of Zamzam.
(c) To his seventy year old wife.
(d) To find his uncle.

3. What happens when he finally calls Pamela to let her know he's alive?
(a) A man answers.
(b) Pamela hangs up on him.
(c) The phone has been disconnected.
(d) She faints.

4. What follows the repudiation of the goddesses?
(a) A blood bath that kills all of Mahound's followers
(b) Hamza is arrested and stoned to death.
(c) Hind forgives him and takes him to her bed.
(d) A policy of persecution against Mahound's followers

5. What is Gibreel doing as he falls through the air?
(a) Trying to fly
(b) Laughing
(c) Singing
(d) Screaming

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs in Gibreel's dream as Mahound returns to the mountain?

2. What does the Grandee, Abu Simbel, want from the satirist Baal?

3. Why does Rosa Diamond rush for her hat, cloak, and stick?

4. What cliche does Abu Simbel believe is not true?

5. How many survivors are there from the explosion?

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