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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hamza's objection to accepting Lat, Uzza, and Manat as equal with Allah?
(a) They have funny names.
(b) They require human sacrifice.
(c) They are all females.
(d) They are only statues.

2. What does Abu Simbel want from Mahound?
(a) That Mahound will bring his angel to the city
(b) That Mahound will leave Jahilia and teach somewhere else
(c) That Allah recognize Lat, Uzza, and Manat as gods
(d) That Mahound will recant his beliefs

3. What is odd about the song Gibreel begins to sing?
(a) It is a language and a tune he does not know.
(b) It echoes back into his mouth.
(c) It is a song about India as a lost continent.
(d) It is a child's nursery rhyme.

4. What is Khalid's explanation for the Satanic verses?
(a) That Mahound was under the influence of Hind's drugs.
(b) That Mahound was forced to say good things about Lat.
(c) That Mahound was testing their loyalty.
(d) That Mahound had brought the devil so they could recongize him.

5. What happens between Rosa and Gibreel in a dream?
(a) They drift above the clouds.
(b) They ride horses on the beach.
(c) They are transported to Argentina.
(d) They make love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fills the zamindar, Mirza Saeed Akhtar, with lust as he stands on the veranda of his house?

2. What mischievous thing is Gibreel doing in his dream?

3. Why does Mishal spend so much time with Aeysha?

4. What is the question about the type of song Gibreel sang?

5. To what does Rushdie compare the explosion of the jet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what Gibreel sees on the way down to earth that Chamcha does not see.

2. Trapped by Rosa Diamond, what does Gibreel think is happening to him?

3. What do the citizens of Jahilia and their religion represent in the novel?

4. What message does Aeysha give Mishal in response to Mirza Saeed's final appeal to the pilgrims?

5. Describe how Chamcha is helped to get out of the hospital.

6. Why is Chamcha arrested by the police and later released?

7. Give some information about the exiled Imam.

8. What is the irony of the marriage of Chamcha and Pamela Lovelace?

9. How would you describe the character of Khalid, the water carrier?

10. What is the reaction to Saladin when Sufyan brings him into the Shaandaar hotel?

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