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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity is occupying Pamela's time?
(a) Writing a novel about her experience with Chamcha.
(b) Learning to climb mountains.
(c) Holding seances to speak with the dea.
(d) Investigating allegations of witchcraft among the police.

2. What does Jumpy Joshi think Chamcha, now transformed with horns and goat feet, needs to begin changing back into a man?
(a) A new tailor
(b) A new love interest
(c) To find Gibreel and ask him to help
(d) A hot bowl of soup

3. What halts progress on Gibreel's film?
(a) Billy and Mimi are arrested again in New York.
(b) Billy cannot raise the money.
(c) The script is rejected and they have to start over.
(d) There is a fire on the sound stage.

4. What does the Imam say about the foundling baby?
(a) It is just a baby.
(b) It has strange markings on it.
(c) It is innocent of any sin.
(d) It is the Devil's child.

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

6. About what does Sufyan's wife, Hind, assume that her husband agrees with her?
(a) That Chamcha is a freak
(b) That sex is a dirty business
(c) That Chamcha is Shaitan himself
(d) That their daughters should not see Chamcha

7. Where do Mishal, Hanif, and Pinkwalla take Chamcha after they leave the Hot Wax nightclub?
(a) To the movie studio.
(b) To Buckingham Palace.
(c) To the bank.
(d) To his former home.

8. What happens when Aeysha agrees with the Imam?
(a) The people turn against the Imam and Aeysha.
(b) Mirza Saeed snatches the baby out of the Iman's arms.
(c) Mishal asks for the baby.
(d) The baby is stoned to death.

9. What has Hal Valance done to Chamcha?
(a) Made love to Pamela, Chamcha's wife.
(b) Turned him in to the police.
(c) Fired him.
(d) Stolen his money.

10. How does Chamcha appear as he stands among the wreckage of the Hot Wax nightclub?
(a) His goat feet are bigger than ever.
(b) He is back to normal.
(c) His face is all black.
(d) His horns have growqn three feet.

11. What offer does Mirza Saeed make Aeysha as the people turn against her?
(a) To order boats to take them across the sea.
(b) To bring in doctors to help the sick.
(c) To fly twenve of the pilgrims to Mecca.
(d) To build her a new mosque in Titlipur.

12. What does Mahound learn just before he dies?
(a) Al-Lat caused his sickness.
(b) Hind committed suicide.
(c) Khalid poisoned him.
(d) Gibreel is really an actor.

13. Why does Saladin think there is no need for angels and demons?
(a) Man is both demonic and angelic.
(b) Men are demons and women are angels.
(c) Neither of them a real.
(d) He was no different as a demon.

14. What sign is given Baal that Mahound is returning to Jahilia?
(a) Gibreel hovering overhead
(b) Cone Mountain shakes
(c) Butterflies all turn black
(d) A blood tear on the statue of Al-Lat

15. At the party, seeing London at Gibreel's feet, what happens to Chamcha?
(a) He is happy for his fellow Indian.
(b) He gets lost in the crowd.
(c) He feels the return of hate.
(d) He begins to feel ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Aeysha proclaims the loss of life as punishment from God, Mirza Saeed retorts that they were all underground. What does Aeysha say?

2. Who hits Jumpy over the head with an oar?

3. After the girls of The Curtain are jailed, what makes the men afraid?

4. What does Pamela continue to say about Chamcha?

5. What does Srinivas, the toy merchant, see coming toward him?

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