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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the specter of Dr. Babington say as he fades into the moonlight?
(a) Wherever the English settle, they never leave England.
(b) Whatever the English think, there are better cultures.
(c) Whatever the english bring with them, they always take away.
(d) Wherever the English go, death is not far behind.

3. What does Mishal tell her husband about the girl?
(a) That she has relatives in the village
(b) That she has six fingers on one hand
(c) That she comes from Mecca
(d) That her name is Aeysha

4. Who thinks it is a miracle that they are alive?
(a) Chamcha
(b) Gibreel
(c) An old woman
(d) The TV reporter

5. What happens to the wife of Sarpanch Muhammad Din, an old woman on the march?
(a) She starts collecting butterflies.
(b) She dies.
(c) She kisses Gibreel.
(d) She becomes young again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Abu Simbel that a poet's work is to shape the world?

2. Why do the villagers not turn back as they wade deeper and deeper into the sea?

3. What does Alicja Cone say to Allie about Gibreel?

4. What fills the zamindar, Mirza Saeed Akhtar, with lust as he stands on the veranda of his house?

5. What follows the repudiation of the goddesses?

(see the answer key)

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