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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What claim does Aeysha make upon her return to Titlipur?
(a) That she is now the new prophet
(b) That she had received a message from God
(c) That the Angel Gibreel had lain down beside her
(d) That she has the power to work miracles

2. How does Osman explain to the villager that Aeysha disappeared without his seeing where she went.
(a) He says she gave him something to make him sleep.
(b) He says a wind blew dust in his eyes.
(c) He says she left in the middle of the night.
(d) He says she sent him on an errand and was gone when he returned.

3. Where are Gibreel and Chamcha found?
(a) Sitting on a hill
(b) Running down a lane
(c) Walking to London
(d) Washed up on the shore

4. Who is the antagonist of the Imam, Mahmood?
(a) Saladin Chamcha
(b) Rosa Diamond
(c) The Empress Aeysha
(d) The angel Gibreel

5. Who tells Abu Simbel that a poet's work is to shape the world?
(a) Hind
(b) Jahilia
(c) Mahound
(d) Baal

6. What does Chamcha order Gibreel to do?
(a) Shut up and pray
(b) Hold his hand
(c) Dive to his death
(d) Fly and sing

7. How does Hind say he got there?
(a) She had him arrested and brought to her.
(b) She found him unconscious in the street.
(c) She drugged him and brought him home.
(d) She seduced him with liquour.

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

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

10. What is Aeysha's affliction?
(a) She is barren.
(b) She has cancer.
(c) She has leporsy.
(d) She has epilepsy.

11. What cliche does Abu Simbel believe is not true?
(a) A penny saved is a penny earned
(b) The pen is mightier than the sword
(c) A stitch in time saves nine
(d) Love is neverhaving to say you're sorry

12. Why are Mahound's followers worried after he goes to see the Grandee?
(a) He is gone a long time and has not returned.
(b) He is likely to compromise with the Grandee.
(c) He may be planning to kill the Grandee.
(d) He may fall into the clutches of Hind.

13. What does Abu Simbel want from Mahound?
(a) That Mahound will leave Jahilia and teach somewhere else
(b) That Allah recognize Lat, Uzza, and Manat as gods
(c) That Mahound will bring his angel to the city
(d) That Mahound will recant his beliefs

14. What does Mahound now believe about the verses accepting the goddesses?
(a) They were in a language he really did not understand.
(b) They were from Shaitan and not Gibreel.
(c) They were a test of his understanding.
(d) They were in cryptic form where one thing means another.

15. What has Rekha forgotten now that she is dead?
(a) How she died
(b) Who Gibreel is
(c) What her name was
(d) How to forgive

Short Answer Questions

1. Who thinks it is a miracle that they are alive?

2. What makes Gibreel begin speaking after pinning Mahound down?

3. What does Gibreel call Chamcha?

4. Where are they as they are falling?

5. What difficulty does Gibreel have in getting out of Rosa's house?

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