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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Hamza is arrested and stoned to death.
(d) A blood bath that kills all of Mahound's followers

2. Why does Mishal spend so much time with Aeysha?
(a) She has fallen in love with Aeysha.
(b) She wants to learn how to call the butterflies.
(c) She suspects her husband is lusting after Aeysha.
(d) She hopes Aeysha's Archangel husband will grant her a baby.

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

4. After the girls of The Curtain are jailed, what makes the men afraid?
(a) They all knew the names of the girls.
(b) They do not know what may come into Mahound's mind.
(c) They had violated the laws of segregation of the sexes.
(d) They had sworn an oath that they never went to The Curtain.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs in Gibreel's dream as Mahound returns to the mountain?

2. why do Gibreel and Rosa go into the village to buy a cake and champagne?

3. What is Aeysha's affliction?

4. To what does Rushdie compare the explosion of the jet?

5. What does ellowen deeowen stand for?

(see the answer key)

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