View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A New Direction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Muhammad live with his uncle?
(a) He was orphaned at an early age and his grandfather died when he was eight.
(b) He wanted to attend good schools where his uncle lived.
(c) His parents could not care for him.
(d) His uncle was the only religious man in the family.

2. Muhammad was asking the people to break with ____________ and they were reluctant to do so.
(a) Their families.
(b) Their religious leaders.
(c) God.
(d) The past.

3. Why are most Muslims insulted by the use of the term regarding Muhammad's illiteracy?
(a) They are embarrassed that Muhammad was illiterate.
(b) They feel that Westerners refuse to believe that Muhammad had a real calling.
(c) They do not believe that Muhammad was illiterate.
(d) They find it to be an inaccurate term.

4. Arab society at this time was characterized by who?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Monks.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Nomads.

5. What did this angel command him to recite?
(a) What would become the Quran.
(b) The Bible in Arabic.
(c) A series of laws.
(d) Poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Did Muhammad write the suras of the Quran?

2. According to Armstrong, what are most of the Western views of Islam based on?

3. Why did Muhammad marry Sawdah?

4. What led the author to look at the religion and at the Prophet Muhammad?

5. When the leaders converted, what did the rest of the tribe do?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 310 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample