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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Qureishi offer his daughter, Mishal?
(a) To fly her to Mecca
(b) To send for a doctor
(c) To allow her to continue her march
(d) To carry her on his back

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

4. What must happen before a Prophet can die?
(a) He must pass though the fires of hell.
(b) He must be shown Paradise and make a choice of heaven or longer life.
(c) He must be purified with clean water and dressed in white linen.
(d) He must sit facing the east and wait for death to come.

5. What is Hind doing for two years after her seclusion?
(a) Memorizing the Quran
(b) Planning her escape to Egypt
(c) Studying occult books
(d) Writing books for women

6. 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 suffers a fatal heart attack on the long trip back to Titilipur.
(d) He dies of starvation at home, dreaming of going under the sea.

7. On the radio in a taxi, who does Saladin hear speaking?
(a) Allie Cone
(b) Gibreel Farishta
(c) Winston churchill
(d) Eugene Dumsday

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

9. How does Anahita Sufyan apologize for calling Chamcha a freak?
(a) She says that he is not a freak, he just looks like one.
(b) She says that she did not mean freak, she meant Greek.
(c) She says it was wrong of her to speak.
(d) She cries and gives him a kiss.

10. When Aeysha proclaims the loss of life as punishment from God, Mirza Saeed retorts that they were all underground. What does Aeysha say?
(a) They were trying to hide from God.
(b) They dug their own graves.
(c) They should have gone to the sea.
(d) They should have climbed the mountain.

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

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

13. What was the tragedy of the flood?
(a) Most of the children had drowned.
(b) Fifteen thousand miners were buried alive in the mines.
(c) The crops were all destroyed.
(d) All the houses were flattened.

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

15. When Mahound's Aeysha becomes jealous of his dalliances, what does he do?
(a) He goes into a trance and quotes the Archangel giving him orders to have many women.
(b) He threatens to have her sent to work at The Curtain.
(c) He makes her walk naked through the city.
(d) He tells her the lies whe wants to hear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Srinivas realize about Aeysha?

2. As Hind grows bolder, what is happening to Mahound?

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

4. Now out of jail, what is Billy Battuta planning for Gibreel?

5. How is Baal disguised by the madam of The Curtain brothel?

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