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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 impossible for Gibreel and Chamcha to do, yet they do?
(a) Hear each other
(b) Slow down their descent
(c) Fly like a kite
(d) Jump over each others

2. What occupation do Gibreel and Chamcha have in common?
(a) They are actors.
(b) They are accountants.
(c) The are writers.
(d) They are religious clerics.

3. Who does Saladin think the old woman with the cane is?
(a) The Archangel Gibreel
(b) Pamela
(c) Rekha
(d) The Angel of Death

4. How does Gibreel finally manage to pin Mahound down in the wrestling match?
(a) Gibreel strikes Mahound blind.
(b) The afreet come and help him.
(c) It is what Mahound wants.
(d) Mahound gets sleepy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to Hagar to show her the waters of Zamzam?

2. What does the Grandee, Abu Simbel, want from the satirist Baal?

3. What is the question about the type of song Gibreel sang?

4. What do Rosa and Gibreel see running down the beach at night?

5. What does Inspector Lime refuse to admit he saw when he looked up at Gibreel?

(see the answer key)

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