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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Saladin Chamcha's reaction to waking up on the beach?
(a) He starts to cry.
(b) He slaps Gibreel.
(c) He laughs hysterically.
(d) He sits up and rubs his eyes.

2. What proof do the police offer that Saladin is the man they are looking for?
(a) His breath smells of death.
(b) He has no proper identification.
(c) His lumps have grown into sharp horns.
(d) His eyes glow red.

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

4. What does the Grandee, Abu Simbel, want from the satirist Baal?
(a) Some satirical poetry making fun of Mahound
(b) A peom dedicated to the Grandee
(c) To withdraw from the poetry contest
(d) For him to stop visiting his wife, Hind

5. What occupation do Gibreel and Chamcha have in common?
(a) They are accountants.
(b) The are writers.
(c) They are actors.
(d) They are religious clerics.

6. Where are they as they are falling?
(a) Over the English Channel
(b) Over the Indian Ocean
(c) Over Mecca
(d) Over Paris, France

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

8. What do Rosa and Gibreel see running down the beach at night?
(a) An ostrich
(b) A bull
(c) Saladin
(d) Horses

9. What blasphemous thing does Mirza say to Aeysha?
(a) Your Archangel is Shaitan.
(b) God has no prophet.
(c) You are the mother of all liars.
(d) There is no God.

10. What does Gibreel say when he wakes up?
(a) Who am I?
(b) Born again.
(c) Where are we?
(d) Did you see that?

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

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

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

14. Seeing the image, what does Gibreel want to know from Saladin?
(a) If he can help him get rid of it
(b) If he can hear the conversation
(c) If he is seeing anything at all
(d) If he can see it also

15. What is Rosa's response when Gibreel asks if she noticed Chamcha's horns?
(a) Nothing, she goes deaf.
(b) she says she did not.
(c) She looks surprised and nods her head.
(d) She says that horns are the fashion now.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Abu Simbel that a poet's work is to shape the world?

2. Why does Mishal spend so much time with Aeysha?

3. Who is the antagonist of the Imam, Mahmood?

4. What is Saladin's explanation for their survival?

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

(see the answer keys)

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