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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. What proof do the police offer that Saladin is the man they are looking for?

2. Why is Saladin covered with a thin sheet of ice?

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

4. What does Mishal tell her husband about the girl?

5. What does Gibreel call Chamcha?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the TV show called Gardener's World attract Chamcha's attention?

2. What is the thing Chamcha must do that calls him away from the human chain protest?

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

4. Where are Gibreel and Allie living?

5. Why does Saladin return to India?

6. How does Chamcha go about reclaiming his life after he returns to normal?

7. Why is Gibreel unable to get away from Rosa Diamond?

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

9. How does Mirza Saeed die?

10. What does Zeeny Vakil represent in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about organized demonstrations as a means of social change. Use the demonstration on behalf of Uhura Simba and the human chain for peace as examples. Then refer to real life demonstrations that have either succeeded or failed. Some examples you might want to research and include are the demonstrations led by Gandhi in India and the American Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

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

One of the main themes of THE SATANIC VERSES is that of racism. Select example passages on that theme and write your opinion about the subject.

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