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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rosa's response when Gibreel asks if she noticed Chamcha's horns?
(a) She says that horns are the fashion now.
(b) she says she did not.
(c) Nothing, she goes deaf.
(d) She looks surprised and nods her head.

2. Why do the people reject Mirza Saeed's offer to build liters for them to ride in to Mecca?
(a) Because there is not enough time to build them
(b) Because the Archangel said they were to walk
(c) Because they cannot accept anything from an unbeliever
(d) Because Aeysha forbids it

3. Why is Saladin covered with a thin sheet of ice?
(a) He landed in the water.
(b) He is crying.
(c) He broke the ice.
(d) He is perspiring.

4. What do Rosa and Gibreel see running down the beach at night?
(a) An ostrich
(b) Horses
(c) Saladin
(d) A bull

5. What fills the zamindar, Mirza Saeed Akhtar, with lust as he stands on the veranda of his house?
(a) His wife, Mishal, taking her morning bath in the fountain
(b) The Empress Hind doing a sensual dance
(c) A girl who is eating on his lawn and attracting the chameleon butterflies
(d) The ghost of Rekha dancing on his lawn

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the police come for Saladin?

2. What is the name of the jumbo jet that explodes?

3. What happens to Gibreel's breath after he falls to earth?

4. Where does Mahound go after he leaves Hind's chambers?

5. What does Saladin dream about in Rosa's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the title of Satanic Verses come from?

2. Explain how business suddenly picks up at the brothel called The Curtain.

3. Explain what Gibreel sees on the way down to earth that Chamcha does not see.

4. Explain religious extremism as demonstrated by finding the abandoned baby.

5. How does Gibreel put his foot in his mouth when he speaks with Chamcha?

6. Tell what happens when Chamcha calls Pamela.

7. How is Chamcha bitter at his circumstances?

8. Describe what Chamcha finds in the church.

9. Describe how Chamcha is helped to get out of the hospital.

10. What is the relevance of the arrest of Dr. Uhura Simba to the theme of the novel?

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