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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens as Aeysha walks toward the protesters trying to stop the pilgrims?
(a) Someone throws a stone at Aeysha.
(b) Aeysha grows as tall as a tree.
(c) Lightning strikes the protest leader.
(d) It comes a downpour of rain.

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

4. What makes Saladin's return to his past life difficult?
(a) Jumpy
(b) Gibreel
(c) Red tape
(d) Amnesia

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

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

7. Who is Jumpy Joshi's star pupil at the martial arts academy?
(a) Anahita sufyan
(b) Billy Battuta
(c) Mishal Sufyan
(d) Robbie Williams

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

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

10. What is Hind doing for two years after her seclusion?
(a) Writing books for women
(b) Studying occult books
(c) Memorizing the Quran
(d) Planning her escape to Egypt

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Sufyan girls think might be going on with Chamcha?

2. What is the meaning of Uhuru Simba's name?

3. How does Allie become very successful?

4. Although Sufyan and Hind now live in a four-storey terraced house, what does she long for?

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

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