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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Allie become very successful?
(a) She makes three movies back to back.
(b) Marketing her line of sports clothing for women.
(c) Going on talk show to talk about Gibreel.
(d) Writing a book about Gibreel, the man who fell to earth.

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. Why is Dr. Simba arrested?
(a) He is accused of being the Granny Ripper Murderer.
(b) He is suspected of terrorism.
(c) He owes back taxes.
(d) He was standing at the wrong place in the wrong time.

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

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

8. What does Alicja Cone say to Allie about Gibreel?
(a) He will be too famous.
(b) He probably never made a movie.
(c) He is not in your league.
(d) He is a con artist.

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

10. 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 it was wrong of her to speak.
(c) She cries and gives him a kiss.
(d) She says that he is not a freak, he just looks like one.

11. What does Srinivas, the toy merchant, see coming toward him?
(a) A delegation from Mecca
(b) The villagers of Titlipur on their pilgrimage
(c) Rosa Diamond leading a parade of elephants
(d) The Archangel Gibreel

12. What was the tragedy of the flood?
(a) Most of the children had drowned.
(b) Fifteen thousand miners were buried alive in the mines.
(c) All the houses were flattened.
(d) The crops were all destroyed.

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

14. Who recognizes Aeysha in the village of Chatnapatna?
(a) The Vishna Hindu Parishad
(b) The Station Head Officer
(c) Lakshmi
(d) Mrs. Qureishi

15. Now out of jail, what is Billy Battuta planning for Gibreel?
(a) An advertising campaign
(b) A movie comeback
(c) A new temple
(d) A rock band tour

Short Answer Questions

1. What decreases along with the disappearance of Chamcha's horns and hooves?

2. What two women begin to haunt Saladin's dreams?

3. What becomes an obsession with Mahound at Tathrib oasis?

4. Who throws a party on a giant sound stage at Shepperton Studios?

5. How does business suddenly boom at The Curtain?

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