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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the phone call, who arrives at Rosa's house?
(a) The police come to arrest Saladin.
(b) The TV stations send out their camera crews.
(c) The airline representative comes to interview Rosa.
(d) The mayor of London comes to see Gibreel.

2. What happens when Allie Cone looks at Saladin Chamcha?
(a) He feels his hate for Gibreel transfer onto her.
(b) There is instant sexual tension.
(c) He falls madly in love with her.
(d) He sees that she is exactly like Pamela.

3. What is beside Gibreel's ear when he wakes up on the beach?
(a) Chamcha's shoe
(b) A starfish
(c) A piece of the plane
(d) An octopus

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

5. Why does the Imam destroy clocks?
(a) He says God's time is timeless.
(b) The Empress Aeysha collects clocks.
(c) Clocks are works of the Devil.
(d) They remind him of how long he has been in exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mahound now believe about the verses accepting the goddesses?

2. After the girls of The Curtain are jailed, what makes the men afraid?

3. What spiteful thing does Saladin begin doing to Gibreel and Allie?

4. What does Gibreel say when he wakes up?

5. How does Aeysha turn Mirza Saeed's offer to her favor?

(see the answer key)

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