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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the tragedy of the flood?
(a) Most of the children had drowned.
(b) All the houses were flattened.
(c) Fifteen thousand miners were buried alive in the mines.
(d) The crops were all destroyed.

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

3. What does Inspector Lime refuse to admit he saw when he looked up at Gibreel?
(a) Three sets of arms
(b) An elephant head
(c) A halo
(d) Golden eyes

4. What is Hamza's objection to accepting Lat, Uzza, and Manat as equal with Allah?
(a) They have funny names.
(b) They require human sacrifice.
(c) They are all females.
(d) They are only statues.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who recognizes Aeysha in the village of Chatnapatna?

2. What does Kasturba say is a miracle?

3. What does the Grandee do when Mahound and his followers arrive?

4. What blasphemous thing does Mirza say to Aeysha?

5. What emotion becomes the undoing of Gibreel's and Allie's relationship?

(see the answer key)

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