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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Hind upset at the Shaandaar Bed and Breakfast?
(a) She hears Chamcha clomping around on his goat feet.
(b) She catches her husband with Mimi.
(c) She sees Hanif Johnson coming out of her daughter's, Mishal's, room.
(d) She learns that chamcha has lost his job.

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

3. What is Chamcha's dream from the old days?
(a) Teaching his son to ride a bicycle.
(b) Learning how to play the sitar.
(c) Marrying a princess.
(d) Living in an ivory palace.

4. Who is Jumpy Joshi's star pupil at the martial arts academy?
(a) Robbie Williams
(b) Mishal Sufyan
(c) Anahita sufyan
(d) Billy Battuta

5. What does Srinivas, the toy merchant, see coming toward him?
(a) The villagers of Titlipur on their pilgrimage
(b) Rosa Diamond leading a parade of elephants
(c) A delegation from Mecca
(d) The Archangel Gibreel

6. What do all the people accept as a miracle after the rains stop?
(a) The butterflies return.
(b) Aeysha's sari turns to gold.
(c) No one has been harmed in the flood.
(d) The sun immediately dries the land.

7. How does Mirza Saeed meet his death?
(a) He commits suicide after returning to an empty house.
(b) He is killed by the villagers who remained in Titlipur.
(c) He dies of starvation at home, dreaming of going under the sea.
(d) He suffers a fatal heart attack on the long trip back to Titilipur.

8. What spiteful thing does Saladin begin doing to Gibreel and Allie?
(a) Letting the air out of their tires.
(b) Making anonymous calls suggesting that Allie is having an affair.
(c) Calling during the night but not saying anything.
(d) Putting false insormation about them in the newspapers.

9. Why do the villagers not turn back as they wade deeper and deeper into the sea?
(a) They have been drugged by Aeysha.
(b) They have all been hypnotized by the angel.
(c) They think that only the open believers will not be harmed by the water.
(d) They are too proud to return to scorn.

10. What two women begin to haunt Saladin's dreams?
(a) Mishal Sufyan and Zeeny Vakil
(b) Anahita and Nasreen
(c) Ussa and Manat
(d) Pamela and Hind

11. What makes Saladin's return to his past life difficult?
(a) Red tape
(b) Gibreel
(c) Jumpy
(d) Amnesia

12. What conclusion do the miners reach when the great flood comes?
(a) That Aeysha was a powerful magician
(b) That the butterflies had turned into rain
(c) That God had taken the side of Aeysha
(d) That they must double their opposition to Aeysha

13. Who finally recognizes Baal at The Curtain?
(a) Abu Simbel
(b) Khalid
(c) Mahound
(d) Salman

14. What is the meaning of Uhuru Simba's name?
(a) Africans for Freedom
(b) Honor of the Lion
(c) Black is Beautiful
(d) Freedom for the Lion

15. In his dream, what do the look-alike Hyacinths call Chamcha?
(a) Satan, the Goat
(b) An imposter
(c) An archangel
(d) A grade B actor

Short Answer Questions

1. The Satanic verses, multiple marriages, and either old or very young wives are all points of disagreement between what two people?

2. What halts progress on Gibreel's film?

3. What does the Imam say about the foundling baby?

4. What offer does Mirza Saeed make Aeysha as the people turn against her?

5. What does Alicja Cone say to Allie about Gibreel?

(see the answer keys)

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