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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hamza do that causes Hind to set her mind on revenge?
(a) He kills two of her brothers.
(b) He rapes her.
(c) He sets fire to the temple of Uzza.
(d) He destroys a statue to Lat.

2. 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 language and a tune he does not know.
(c) It is a child's nursery rhyme.
(d) It echoes back into his mouth.

3. What does the Grandee, Abu Simbel, want from the satirist Baal?
(a) Some satirical poetry making fun of Mahound
(b) To withdraw from the poetry contest
(c) For him to stop visiting his wife, Hind
(d) A peom dedicated to the Grandee

4. Who willed the rescue and who made it happen?
(a) Farishta willed it and also made it happen.
(b) Chamcha willed it and Farishta made it happen.
(c) Farishta willed ti and Chamcha made it happen.
(d) God willed it and an angel made it happen.

5. What follows the repudiation of the goddesses?
(a) Hind forgives him and takes him to her bed.
(b) A policy of persecution against Mahound's followers
(c) A blood bath that kills all of Mahound's followers
(d) Hamza is arrested and stoned to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gibreel doing as he falls through the air?

2. What is impossible for Gibreel and Chamcha to do, yet they do?

3. What is Hamza's objection to accepting Lat, Uzza, and Manat as equal with Allah?

4. What does Chamcha order Gibreel to do?

5. What does Gibreel say when he wakes up?

(see the answer key)

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