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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Mirza Saeed meet his death?
(a) He is killed by the villagers who remained in Titlipur.
(b) He dies of starvation at home, dreaming of going under the sea.
(c) He commits suicide after returning to an empty house.
(d) He suffers a fatal heart attack on the long trip back to Titilipur.

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

12. What assurance does Jumpy need to go into Pamela's bedroom?
(a) A copy of Pamela's divorce papers
(b) Permission from Chamcha
(c) That Chamcha will not see him
(d) That Chamcha is out of town

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

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

15. What happens when Aeysha agrees with the Imam?
(a) Mirza Saeed snatches the baby out of the Iman's arms.
(b) The baby is stoned to death.
(c) The people turn against the Imam and Aeysha.
(d) Mishal asks for the baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Saladin's return to his past life difficult?

2. What sign is given Baal that Mahound is returning to Jahilia?

3. What does Jumpy Joshi think Chamcha, now transformed with horns and goat feet, needs to begin changing back into a man?

4. The Satanic verses, multiple marriages, and either old or very young wives are all points of disagreement between what two people?

5. What has Hind upset at the Shaandaar Bed and Breakfast?

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