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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What occurs in Gibreel's dream as Mahound returns to the mountain?
(a) He and Mahound are wrestling naked.
(b) Mahound tries to kill him.
(c) He changes Mahound into a donkey.
(d) He talks to God who tells him what to say.

3. Why is Saladin covered with a thin sheet of ice?
(a) He is perspiring.
(b) He broke the ice.
(c) He is crying.
(d) He landed in the water.

4. What is Saladin's explanation for their survival?
(a) That it is all a dream
(b) That it was nothing out of the ordinary
(c) That they were lucky
(d) That God was with them

5. What does Gibreel feel is holding him at Rosa's house?
(a) Her black magic.
(b) Her stories.
(c) Her pitiful condition.
(d) Her strong personality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Saladin Chamcha's reaction to waking up on the beach?

3. How does Mahound see the Archangel Gibreel in the cave?

4. What does Mahound now believe about the verses accepting the goddesses?

5. Where are they as they are falling?

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