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

2. 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 village life in Bangladesh.
(d) The humble teacher's flat in Dhaka.

3. Where do Mishal, Hanif, and Pinkwalla take Chamcha after they leave the Hot Wax nightclub?
(a) To the movie studio.
(b) To Buckingham Palace.
(c) To his former home.
(d) To the bank.

4. What does Gibreel shout out in John Maslama's music store?
(a) I am the right hand of God!
(b) I am the Defender of the Faith!
(c) I am the Angel of Death!
(d) I am the voice of the Prophet!

5. How does Hind save her life?
(a) Veiled, she kisses Mahound's foot and says the words of Submission.
(b) She becomes Mahound's wife.
(c) She disguises herself as a peasant.
(d) He agrees to have Mahound sleep in her bed.

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

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

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

9. What do the Sufyan girls think might be going on with Chamcha?
(a) Because he is an actor, they think his appearance may just be makeup.
(b) They think he will return to normal in the south of France.
(c) They think he just has a hysterical deformity which will go away.
(d) They think he is projecting an image onto their minds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anahita call her parents' native land?

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

3. What must happen before a Prophet can die?

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

5. What halts progress on Gibreel's film?

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