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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the villagers not turn back as they wade deeper and deeper into the sea?
(a) They have been drugged by Aeysha.
(b) They have all been hypnotized by the angel.
(c) They think that only the open believers will not be harmed by the water.
(d) They are too proud to return to scorn.

3. On the radio in a taxi, who does Saladin hear speaking?
(a) Eugene Dumsday
(b) Allie Cone
(c) Gibreel Farishta
(d) Winston churchill

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

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

6. What halts progress on Gibreel's film?
(a) Billy and Mimi are arrested again in New York.
(b) The script is rejected and they have to start over.
(c) Billy cannot raise the money.
(d) There is a fire on the sound stage.

7. 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 dug their own graves.
(b) They should have climbed the mountain.
(c) They were trying to hide from God.
(d) They should have gone to the sea.

8. Why does Saladin think there is no need for angels and demons?
(a) He was no different as a demon.
(b) Men are demons and women are angels.
(c) Neither of them a real.
(d) Man is both demonic and angelic.

9. What does Chamcha do in his apartment?
(a) Make phone calls.
(b) Watch TV.
(c) Kill Pamela.
(d) Break up the furniture.

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

11. What does Gibreel shout out in John Maslama's music store?
(a) I am the voice of the Prophet!
(b) I am the Defender of the Faith!
(c) I am the Angel of Death!
(d) I am the right hand of God!

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

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

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

15. What happens when Allie Cone looks at Saladin Chamcha?
(a) There is instant sexual tension.
(b) He feels his hate for Gibreel transfer onto her.
(c) He sees that she is exactly like Pamela.
(d) He falls madly in love with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do all the people accept as a miracle after the rains stop?

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

3. Who finally recognizes Baal at The Curtain?

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

5. How does Hind save her life?

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