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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. why do Gibreel and Rosa go into the village to buy a cake and champagne?
(a) For a celebration of Gibreel's survival
(b) For guests coming to dinner
(c) For her eighty-ninth birthday
(d) For New Year's Eve

2. Why does Mishal spend so much time with Aeysha?
(a) She suspects her husband is lusting after Aeysha.
(b) She wants to learn how to call the butterflies.
(c) She hopes Aeysha's Archangel husband will grant her a baby.
(d) She has fallen in love with Aeysha.

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

4. 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

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

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

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

8. What makes Gibreel begin speaking after pinning Mahound down?
(a) He wants to talk so he can wake up.
(b) It is customary for the victor to give a speech.
(c) Allah opens him mouth and gives him the words.
(d) Mahound forces his mouth open and the words out of his mouth.

9. What occurs in Gibreel's dream as Mahound returns to the mountain?
(a) He talks to God who tells him what to say.
(b) He changes Mahound into a donkey.
(c) Mahound tries to kill him.
(d) He and Mahound are wrestling naked.

10. How many survivors are there from the explosion?
(a) Two
(b) None
(c) Twenty
(d) Three

11. What mischievous thing is Gibreel doing in his dream?
(a) Throwing water on passing strangers
(b) Putting Muslim meat in Hindu tiffins
(c) Inviting untouchables to dinner
(d) Drawing graffiti on the walls

12. What difficulty does Gibreel have in getting out of Rosa's house?
(a) He trips on the stairs.
(b) Rosa wakes up and holds onto him.
(c) His legs are unsteady.
(d) He cannot unlock the door.

13. What does Bilal, an American convert, do for the Imam?
(a) He writes satires for the Imam.
(b) He guards the Imam's door.
(c) He provides water for the Imam.
(d) He sings the Imam's songs on his radio broadcast.

14. Who does Gibreel see on his way down to earth?
(a) God looking down from Heaven
(b) His step mother on a broomstick
(c) Rekha Merchant on a flying carpet
(d) Allileua Cone in a balloon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What proof do the police offer that Saladin is the man they are looking for?

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

3. What is Rosa's response when Gibreel asks if she noticed Chamcha's horns?

4. What does Aeysha believe will happen on the way to Mecca?

5. What does Gibreel feel is holding him at Rosa's house?

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