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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decreases along with the disappearance of Chamcha's horns and hooves?
(a) His singing.
(b) His dreams.
(c) His desires.
(d) His animosity toward Gibreel.

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

3. As Hind grows bolder, what is happening to Mahound?
(a) He is dying of a fatal sickness.
(b) He is visiting Gibreel every day.
(c) He is preparing to invade Egypt.
(d) He is planning a trip to Jerusalem.

4. What sign is given Baal that Mahound is returning to Jahilia?
(a) Gibreel hovering overhead
(b) A blood tear on the statue of Al-Lat
(c) Butterflies all turn black
(d) Cone Mountain shakes

5. How does Anahita Sufyan apologize for calling Chamcha a freak?
(a) She says that he is not a freak, he just looks like one.
(b) She says that she did not mean freak, she meant Greek.
(c) She cries and gives him a kiss.
(d) She says it was wrong of her to speak.

6. What does Srinivas realize about Aeysha?
(a) She has the same face as the goddess Lakshmi.
(b) She is connected to the Archangel Gibreel.
(c) She can only sleep under a blanket of butterflies.
(d) She cannot possibly be wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

12. How is Baal disguised by the madam of The Curtain brothel?
(a) He is plastered to look like a leper.
(b) His skin and hair are dyed blue black like a djinn.
(c) He is dressed as a woman.
(d) He is painted white and stands like a statue.

13. What happens to the wife of Sarpanch Muhammad Din, an old woman on the march?
(a) She kisses Gibreel.
(b) She starts collecting butterflies.
(c) She dies.
(d) She becomes young again.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gibreel shout out in John Maslama's music store?

3. What was the tragedy of the flood?

4. What activity is occupying Pamela's time?

5. What halts progress on Gibreel's film?

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