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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the rumor that Hind is using witchcraft?
(a) She starts collecting brooms and caldrons.
(b) She dresses all in black.
(c) She is always accompanied by a black cat.
(d) She does not appear to age.

2. After the girls of The Curtain are jailed, what makes the men afraid?
(a) They do not know what may come into Mahound's mind.
(b) They all knew the names of the girls.
(c) They had sworn an oath that they never went to The Curtain.
(d) They had violated the laws of segregation of the sexes.

3. What spiteful thing does Saladin begin doing to Gibreel and Allie?
(a) Letting the air out of their tires.
(b) Calling during the night but not saying anything.
(c) Putting false insormation about them in the newspapers.
(d) Making anonymous calls suggesting that Allie is having an affair.

4. What has Hind upset at the Shaandaar Bed and Breakfast?
(a) She catches her husband with Mimi.
(b) She hears Chamcha clomping around on his goat feet.
(c) She learns that chamcha has lost his job.
(d) She sees Hanif Johnson coming out of her daughter's, Mishal's, room.

5. Who throws a party on a giant sound stage at Shepperton Studios?
(a) Pamela Lovelace
(b) Gibreel Farishta
(c) S. S. Sisodia
(d) Eugene Dumsday

6. What does the Grandee do when Mahound and his followers arrive?
(a) He hides under Hind's bed.
(b) He surrenders the city and embrases the faith.
(c) He runs away to live in exile.
(d) He falls on his own sword and dies.

7. What does the Imam say about the foundling baby?
(a) It is the Devil's child.
(b) It is just a baby.
(c) It is innocent of any sin.
(d) It has strange markings on it.

8. What does Jumpy Joshi think Chamcha, now transformed with horns and goat feet, needs to begin changing back into a man?
(a) A new tailor
(b) A hot bowl of soup
(c) A new love interest
(d) To find Gibreel and ask him to help

9. What happens as Aeysha walks toward the protesters trying to stop the pilgrims?
(a) Aeysha grows as tall as a tree.
(b) Someone throws a stone at Aeysha.
(c) Lightning strikes the protest leader.
(d) It comes a downpour of rain.

10. What was the tragedy of the flood?
(a) Most of the children had drowned.
(b) Fifteen thousand miners were buried alive in the mines.
(c) The crops were all destroyed.
(d) All the houses were flattened.

11. What happens when Aeysha agrees with the Imam?
(a) The baby is stoned to death.
(b) The people turn against the Imam and Aeysha.
(c) Mirza Saeed snatches the baby out of the Iman's arms.
(d) Mishal asks for the baby.

12. What does Pamela continue to say about Chamcha?
(a) He is too ugly to be my husband.
(b) He doesn't exist, such things are not so.
(c) I have his death certificate in my hand.
(d) Everyone is having halucinations.

13. What does Anahita call her parents' native land?
(a) Scandal Point
(b) Bungleditch
(c) Swindlia
(d) Hindu Hills

14. What has Hal Valance done to Chamcha?
(a) Turned him in to the police.
(b) Made love to Pamela, Chamcha's wife.
(c) Fired him.
(d) Stolen his money.

15. How does Chamcha appear as he stands among the wreckage of the Hot Wax nightclub?
(a) His face is all black.
(b) His goat feet are bigger than ever.
(c) He is back to normal.
(d) His horns have growqn three feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity is occupying Pamela's time?

2. What does Alicja Cone say to Allie about Gibreel?

3. Now out of jail, what is Billy Battuta planning for Gibreel?

4. What assurance does Jumpy need to go into Pamela's bedroom?

5. What two women begin to haunt Saladin's dreams?

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