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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion becomes the undoing of Gibreel's and Allie's relationship?
(a) Allie's desire for excellence
(b) Gibreel's passion for cooking
(c) Allie's love of mountain climbing
(d) Gibreel's unjustified jealousy

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

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

4. Although Sufyan and Hind now live in a four-storey terraced house, what does she long for?
(a) The village life in Bangladesh.
(b) A smaller house, easier to keep clean.
(c) A cottage in Ireland.
(d) The humble teacher's flat in Dhaka.

5. How does Hind save her life?
(a) She disguises herself as a peasant.
(b) He agrees to have Mahound sleep in her bed.
(c) She becomes Mahound's wife.
(d) Veiled, she kisses Mahound's foot and says the words of Submission.

6. In his dream, what do the look-alike Hyacinths call Chamcha?
(a) A grade B actor
(b) An imposter
(c) Satan, the Goat
(d) An archangel

7. Where do Mishal, Hanif, and Pinkwalla take Chamcha after they leave the Hot Wax nightclub?
(a) To his former home.
(b) To the movie studio.
(c) To Buckingham Palace.
(d) To the bank.

8. When Aeysha proclaims the loss of life as punishment from God, Mirza Saeed retorts that they were all underground. What does Aeysha say?
(a) They were trying to hide from God.
(b) They dug their own graves.
(c) They should have gone to the sea.
(d) They should have climbed the mountain.

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

10. Who recognizes Aeysha in the village of Chatnapatna?
(a) Mrs. Qureishi
(b) The Station Head Officer
(c) Lakshmi
(d) The Vishna Hindu Parishad

11. How does Salman test Mahound?
(a) He slips pork into Mahound's beef stew but nothing happens.
(b) He makes up new rules, writes them down, and Mahound thinks he did it himself.
(c) He puts meaningless words into the writing and Mahound thinks Gibreel put them there.
(d) He alters the words Mahound gives him to write, but Mahound never notices.

12. About what does Sufyan's wife, Hind, assume that her husband agrees with her?
(a) That their daughters should not see Chamcha
(b) That Chamcha is a freak
(c) That Chamcha is Shaitan himself
(d) That sex is a dirty business

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

14. Who finally recognizes Baal at The Curtain?
(a) Salman
(b) Mahound
(c) Abu Simbel
(d) Khalid

15. How does Aeysha turn Mirza Saeed's offer to her favor?
(a) She convinces the pilgrims that Saeed is the Devil.
(b) She tells the pilgrims to go home and she will continue alone.
(c) She refuses to march any further.
(d) She tells the pilgrims that she will only go on if they all do.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Billy Battuta and Mimi in New York?

3. What are Mahound's last words to Baal?

4. What does Mahound learn just before he dies?

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

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