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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Mahound's Aeysha becomes jealous of his dalliances, what does he do?
(a) He goes into a trance and quotes the Archangel giving him orders to have many women.
(b) He makes her walk naked through the city.
(c) He threatens to have her sent to work at The Curtain.
(d) He tells her the lies whe wants to hear.

3. What do all the people accept as a miracle after the rains stop?
(a) No one has been harmed in the flood.
(b) Aeysha's sari turns to gold.
(c) The butterflies return.
(d) The sun immediately dries the land.

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

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

6. What becomes an obsession with Mahound at Tathrib oasis?
(a) Law and rules
(b) Women and girls
(c) Food and feasts
(d) War and wealth

7. The Satanic verses, multiple marriages, and either old or very young wives are all points of disagreement between what two people?
(a) Pamela and Allie
(b) Baal and Hind
(c) Gibreel and Saladin
(d) Salman and Mahound

8. Angry at Saeed, Ayesha says that those who listen to the devil's verses will go to the devil. What does Mirza Saeed answer?
(a) Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.
(b) At least with the devil, you're dry.
(c) How do we know you're not the devil?
(d) It is a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. At the party, seeing London at Gibreel's feet, what happens to Chamcha?
(a) He is happy for his fellow Indian.
(b) He feels the return of hate.
(c) He gets lost in the crowd.
(d) He begins to feel ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the tragedy of the flood?

2. What causes the rumor that Hind is using witchcraft?

3. How does Allie become very successful?

4. What emotion becomes the undoing of Gibreel's and Allie's relationship?

5. How does business suddenly boom at The Curtain?

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