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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Mahound's last words to Baal?
(a) I see no difference between whores and writers.
(b) Today you will meet Shaitan.
(c) Submit and save your miserable life.
(d) You cannot blaspheme after your head is cut off.

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

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

4. What happens when Allie Cone looks at Saladin Chamcha?
(a) He feels his hate for Gibreel transfer onto her.
(b) He sees that she is exactly like Pamela.
(c) There is instant sexual tension.
(d) He falls madly in love with her.

5. How does Aeysha turn Mirza Saeed's offer to her favor?
(a) She convinces the pilgrims that Saeed is the Devil.
(b) She tells the pilgrims that she will only go on if they all do.
(c) She tells the pilgrims to go home and she will continue alone.
(d) She refuses to march any further.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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) A cottage in Ireland.
(c) The humble teacher's flat in Dhaka.
(d) The village life in Bangladesh.

12. Who throws a party on a giant sound stage at Shepperton Studios?
(a) Pamela Lovelace
(b) Eugene Dumsday
(c) S. S. Sisodia
(d) Gibreel Farishta

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

14. What spiteful thing does Saladin begin doing to Gibreel and Allie?
(a) Making anonymous calls suggesting that Allie is having an affair.
(b) Putting false insormation about them in the newspapers.
(c) Calling during the night but not saying anything.
(d) Letting the air out of their tires.

15. Who hits Jumpy over the head with an oar?
(a) Saladin
(b) Pamela
(c) Gibreel
(d) Mimi

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Grandee do when Mahound and his followers arrive?

2. What assurance does Jumpy need to go into Pamela's bedroom?

3. Why does Saladin think there is no need for angels and demons?

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

5. What does Pamela continue to say about Chamcha?

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