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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who thinks it is a miracle that they are alive?
(a) An old woman
(b) The TV reporter
(c) Chamcha
(d) Gibreel
2. Who tries to rationalize away the reason they come down slowly?
(a) Gibreel
(b) Rescuers
(c) Rekha
(d) Saladin
3. What does Gibreel feel is holding him at Rosa's house?
(a) Her strong personality.
(b) Her black magic.
(c) Her stories.
(d) Her pitiful condition.
4. Where is Gibreel planning to go in London?
(a) To find Saladin
(b) To Trafalgar Square
(c) To see Allie
(d) To Buchingham Palace
5. After the phone call, who arrives at Rosa's house?
(a) The mayor of London comes to see Gibreel.
(b) The police come to arrest Saladin.
(c) The airline representative comes to interview Rosa.
(d) The TV stations send out their camera crews.
6. Where are they as they are falling?
(a) Over Mecca
(b) Over the Indian Ocean
(c) Over the English Channel
(d) Over Paris, France
7. Where does Rosa tell Gibreel she went as a young bride?
(a) India
(b) Brazil
(c) Argentina
(d) The Caribbean
8. What has Rekha forgotten now that she is dead?
(a) How she died
(b) How to forgive
(c) Who Gibreel is
(d) What her name was
9. Where does Mahound go after he leaves Hind's chambers?
(a) Back up Mount Cone.
(b) To his seventy year old wife.
(c) To get a drink from the well of Zamzam.
(d) To find his uncle.
10. Why do the police come for Saladin?
(a) The airline wanted to interrogate him about the explosion.
(b) They are looking for the devil and think Saladin might be him.
(c) Gibreel had called them to come get him.
(d) Someone had reported a strange looking man on the beach.
11. What does Inspector Lime refuse to admit he saw when he looked up at Gibreel?
(a) Golden eyes
(b) A halo
(c) An elephant head
(d) Three sets of arms
12. What is Gibreel wearing when he comes down Rosa's stairs to see what is going on?
(a) A bathrobe and fuzzy slippers
(b) A maroon smoking jacket and jodhpurs
(c) A white bed sheet
(d) A white tuxedo
13. What do Rosa and Gibreel see running down the beach at night?
(a) Horses
(b) A bull
(c) An ostrich
(d) Saladin
14. After the fall, what happens to Saladin's breath?
(a) Saladin no longer needs to breathe.
(b) It becomes very bad like Gibreel's was before.
(c) It smells of burning wood.
(d) It smells like flowers.
15. What is impossible for Gibreel and Chamcha to do, yet they do?
(a) Slow down their descent
(b) Fly like a kite
(c) Hear each other
(d) Jump over each others
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Saladin covered with a thin sheet of ice?
2. Why do the people reject Mirza Saeed's offer to build liters for them to ride in to Mecca?
3. What does Aeysha believe will happen on the way to Mecca?
4. What cliche does Abu Simbel believe is not true?
5. Upon her return, what does Aeysha say the people of Titlipur must do?
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