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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is the Archangel Gibreel after all the followers of Mahound leave the city?
(a) In heaven discussing everything with Allah.
(b) Flying around trying to find Mahound.
(c) On the mountain being attacked by Lat, Ussa, and Manat.
(d) Back home in his bed in London.

5. Who does Saladin think the old woman with the cane is?
(a) The Archangel Gibreel
(b) Rekha
(c) Pamela
(d) The Angel of Death

6. What is under Saladin's bowler hat?
(a) Two lumps growing out his temples
(b) His airplane ticket
(c) Gray hair
(d) A starfish

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

8. What is the flight number that blows up with Gibreel and Chamcha aboard?
(a) AI-420
(b) AI1-440
(c) AA 135
(d) PanAm 108

9. What does Hamza do that causes Hind to set her mind on revenge?
(a) He rapes her.
(b) He kills two of her brothers.
(c) He destroys a statue to Lat.
(d) He sets fire to the temple of Uzza.

10. Why do the police come for Saladin?
(a) Gibreel had called them to come get him.
(b) Someone had reported a strange looking man on the beach.
(c) They are looking for the devil and think Saladin might be him.
(d) The airline wanted to interrogate him about the explosion.

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

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

13. What is Saladin's explanation for their survival?
(a) That it is all a dream
(b) That God was with them
(c) That it was nothing out of the ordinary
(d) That they were lucky

14. What is Gibreel doing that slows down their descent?
(a) Holding onto a pelican
(b) Flapping his arms
(c) Using his jacket as a parachutte
(d) Swimming in air

15. What is beside Gibreel's ear when he wakes up on the beach?
(a) A piece of the plane
(b) Chamcha's shoe
(c) An octopus
(d) A starfish

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mahound now believe about the verses accepting the goddesses?

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

3. What news does the Archangel give Aeysha about her friend Mishal?

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

5. What is Khalid's explanation for the Satanic verses?

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