Question 1

The ruling member of a Bedouin tribe was called the

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C. sheikh

Question 2

The Ka'aba

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B. was a large black rock that was housed in a central shrine in Mecca, and worshiped by all pre-islamic Arabs.

Question 3

Muhammad began the solitary meditations during which he received the revelations underlying Islam because of

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C. the difficulties created in his mind by the conflict between Bedouin morality and the acquisitiveness created by the commercialism of Mecca

Question 4

The Koran or Qur'an

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C. was derived from the revelations of Muhammad.

Question 5

The official calendar of Islam begins

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C. with the occurrence of the Hijrah

Question 6

The jihad was

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D. a practice which grew out of the Bedouin practice of conducting tribal raids.

Question 7

Islam is

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B. monotheistic

Question 8

According to Islamic belief

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B. Allah sent not his first but his final message through Muhammad.

Question 9

In addition to being Islam's sacred book, the Koran

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B. is a collection of 114 suras (chapters) that provide the ethical foundation for life

Question 10

The Hadith and Shari'a

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C. were, respectively, a collection of Muhammad's sayings and a law code.

Question 11

The son-in-law and cousin o fMuhammad who was murdered after he became caliph was

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C. Ali

Question 12

In regard to acceptable behavior for a Muslim, it can be said that

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A. all men were permitted to have no more than four wives.

Question 13

The theoretical purpose of the jihad was to

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D. strive in the way of the Lord.

Question 14

Which of the following empires experienced significant defeats at the hands of the seventh-century Arab armies?

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B. Byzantine

Question 15

All of the following were true about the spread of Arab control except

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B. if an individual chose not to become a Muslim, he still had to participate in mandatory military service.

Question 16

The term and position of caliph khalifa

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D. referred to the individual who was the temporal successor of Muhammad and who also was generally considered to be an imam

Question 17

Muhammad was

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C. not widely accepted for many years after he announced his religious revelations.

Question 18

Muhammad's teachings

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A. stressed that Islam was not just a religion but also a way of life.

Question 19

Under the Umayyad Dynasty

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B. The Islamic Arab empire expanded enormously.

Question 20

Under the Abbasid Dynasty

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C. internal decay, over time, caused Islamic division

Question 21

The caliphate that is often described as the Abbasid Golden Age was the reign of

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B. Harun al-Rashid.

Question 22

The Shi'ite capital at Cairo was established under the dynasty of the

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C. Fatimids.

Question 23

The Seljuk Turks

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A. provoked the Byzantine Empire after the rise of the Seljuk Turks.

Question 24

The Crusades

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A. were due, in part, to power shifts stemming from the weakening of the Byzantine Empire after the rise of the Seljuk Turks.

Question 25

Which of the following is not a true statement about the mongols?

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B. Their westward advance continued on to absorb the Cordova caliphate in Spain.

Question 26

The Mongols

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D. were unable to capture Cairo, due to the effective resistance of the Mamluks.

Question 27

During the Abbasid Dynasty

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B. a Persian influence, reflected in the custom of having the caliph hidden from diwan members by a screen, developed.

Question 28

In general terms, it can be said that Islamic society

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C. relied heavily on religious doctrine to determine proper behavior in the areas of politics, economics, law, and ethics.

Question 29

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Arab Empire?

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B. It created an era of great economic success for the Middle East region.

Question 30

Manifestations of the Islamic principle of equality were seen in

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E. none of the above

Question 31

A primary contribution of Arab scholarship was the

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B. preservation and dissemination of the science and philosophies of ancient civilizations.

Question 32

A ninth-century Iranian mathematician created

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B. algebra.

Question 33

Which of the following was not an achievement of Muslim science?

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A. the development of the Upanishads

Question 34

All of the following are true statements about Arab and Persian literature except

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C. the Koran was looked upon as dogma that was separate from literary statement.

Question 35

the poet who wrote the Rubaiyat and The Tales from 1001 Nights was

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B. Omar Khayyam.

Question 36

Who is considered to be the Persian shakespeare?

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E. Sadi

Question 37

The Dome of the Rock is located in

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C. Jerusalem.

Question 38

In the Islamic mosque, the decorated niche in the kibla that faced Mecca and representing God was termed the

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C. Mihrab

Question 39

the fairy-tale castle perched high above the city of Granada was the

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D. Alhambra

Question 40

Which of the following is not a true statement about Islamic art?

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A. The arabesque patterns found on woven Islamic carpets are quite sparse, and leave many areas without any decoration at all.

Question 41

The temporary restoration of the imperial Mediterranean world in the sixth century was accomplished by

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C. Justinian

Question 42

Justinian's Code of Law

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D. became the basis for legal systems of later Europe.

Question 43

The Eastern Roman Empire lost territory in the century after Justinian's death because

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B. the armies of Islam seized the provinces of Palestine and Syria

Question 44

The Byzantine Empire

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B. had no definite division between church and state.

Question 45

All of the following are true about the city of Constantinople except

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D. at its height, it was several times larger than the city of Chang'an in Tang China

Question 46

The Christian schism in 1054 resulted from

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C. the Pope's claim that he was the head of all branches of Christianity, including the Orthodox church.

Question 47

The eastern emperor appealed for western support against Islam after the

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A. defeat of the eastern imperial armies by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert.

Question 48

The issue which almost destroyed the Byzantine Empire in the eighth century

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A. Was the use of religious icons in worship

Question 49

Constantinople was captured and sacked by

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D. Western Christians in 1204

Question 50

Byzantine cultural influence was spread to eastern European peoples primarily through

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C. missionaries.

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