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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although Sufyan and Hind now live in a four-storey terraced house, what does she long for?
(a) The village life in Bangladesh.
(b) A smaller house, easier to keep clean.
(c) A cottage in Ireland.
(d) The humble teacher's flat in Dhaka.

2. What does Aeysha believe will happen on the way to Mecca?
(a) The Archangel Gibreel will lead them all the way.
(b) The waters of the Red Sea will part and they can walk across.
(c) Mirza Saeed, the zamindar, will be converted.
(d) Gibreel will give them food from heaven.

3. How does Anahita Sufyan apologize for calling Chamcha a freak?
(a) She says that he is not a freak, he just looks like one.
(b) She says it was wrong of her to speak.
(c) She cries and gives him a kiss.
(d) She says that she did not mean freak, she meant Greek.

4. What does Inspector Lime refuse to admit he saw when he looked up at Gibreel?
(a) An elephant head
(b) Three sets of arms
(c) Golden eyes
(d) A halo

5. What is beside Gibreel's ear when he wakes up on the beach?
(a) A starfish
(b) A piece of the plane
(c) An octopus
(d) Chamcha's shoe

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Khalid's explanation for the Satanic verses?

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

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

4. How does Osman make his living?

5. What happens to Billy Battuta and Mimi in New York?

(see the answer key)

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