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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gibreel finally manage to pin Mahound down in the wrestling match?

2. Why does the Imam destroy clocks?

3. What does ellowen deeowen stand for?

4. How does Osman explain to the villager that Aeysha disappeared without his seeing where she went.

5. What does Gibreel feel is holding him at Rosa's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Gibreel and Chamcha fall from the wreckage of flight AI-420.

2. How have things changed at Scandal Point?

3. What had happened to Rekha?

4. Explain why the satirical character of Mahound becomes so offensive to Muslims.

5. What is the importance of the wrestling match between Mahound and the Archangel Gibreel?

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

7. Give some information about the exiled Imam.

8. After Pamela kicks him out, what kind of treatment does Jumpy receive at the Shaandaar Cafe?

9. Why is Mrs. Hind such a bitter woman?

10. Why had Zeeny avoided seeing Chamcha?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mahound's new religion is called Submission. The religion consists of rules and regulations. Some people, like Khalid, are very comfortable with this control while others, like Salman the scribe, cannot accept the restrictions. Only Mahound seems not to be bound by the rules. Write a paper discussing your opinion about a religion of rules and laws without compassion.

Essay Topic 2

The event of the Satanic Verses is an actual tradition of Islam. Write a paper on the probability of something like that happening. In comparison, notice how Mahound goes into a trance to quote verses to get his wife Aeysha to back off her objection to his other women. What in your opinion is Rushdie saying about where we get our religious dogmas?

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on the conflict between religions. Al-Lat represents polytheism as opposed to the monotheism of Mahound. Although Al-Lat is defeated by Gibreel, is that only because the Imam wills it? Khalid seems to have destroyed Al-Lat, but in the end, she is still there. Discuss this conflict in detail and how it relates to the real world.

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