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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Mahound's last words to Baal?
(a) I see no difference between whores and writers.
(b) Submit and save your miserable life.
(c) You cannot blaspheme after your head is cut off.
(d) Today you will meet Shaitan.

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

3. What is the meaning of Uhuru Simba's name?
(a) Black is Beautiful
(b) Honor of the Lion
(c) Freedom for the Lion
(d) Africans for Freedom

4. What happens to Billy Battuta and Mimi in New York?
(a) They are suspected of being terrorists.
(b) The are accused of spying by the FBI.
(c) They are arrested for passing a bad check.
(d) They are denied a visa.

5. What is Chamcha's dream from the old days?
(a) Marrying a princess.
(b) Learning how to play the sitar.
(c) Teaching his son to ride a bicycle.
(d) Living in an ivory palace.

6. What does Mr. Qureishi offer his daughter, Mishal?
(a) To carry her on his back
(b) To allow her to continue her march
(c) To fly her to Mecca
(d) To send for a doctor

7. What offer does Mirza Saeed make Aeysha as the people turn against her?
(a) To fly twenve of the pilgrims to Mecca.
(b) To order boats to take them across the sea.
(c) To build her a new mosque in Titlipur.
(d) To bring in doctors to help the sick.

8. How does business suddenly boom at The Curtain?
(a) The twelve whores assume the names of Mahound's twelve wives.
(b) former priestesses of Al-Lat come to join the whores of The Curtain.
(c) Hind takes over the operation and brings in new girls.
(d) Mahound takes to coming there every day with his closest friends.

9. What do the Sufyan girls think might be going on with Chamcha?
(a) They think he will return to normal in the south of France.
(b) They think he just has a hysterical deformity which will go away.
(c) They think he is projecting an image onto their minds.
(d) Because he is an actor, they think his appearance may just be makeup.

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

11. What activity is occupying Pamela's time?
(a) Holding seances to speak with the dea.
(b) Investigating allegations of witchcraft among the police.
(c) Writing a novel about her experience with Chamcha.
(d) Learning to climb mountains.

12. What does Mahound learn just before he dies?
(a) Khalid poisoned him.
(b) Hind committed suicide.
(c) Gibreel is really an actor.
(d) Al-Lat caused his sickness.

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

14. What does Alicja Cone say to Allie about Gibreel?
(a) He will be too famous.
(b) He probably never made a movie.
(c) He is a con artist.
(d) He is not in your league.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chamcha appear as he stands among the wreckage of the Hot Wax nightclub?

2. What spiteful thing does Saladin begin doing to Gibreel and Allie?

3. What conclusion do the miners reach when the great flood comes?

4. Who recognizes Aeysha in the village of Chatnapatna?

5. What is Hind doing for two years after her seclusion?

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