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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Satanic Verses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jahiliyah mean?
(a) The period of ignorance.
(b) The period of sadness.
(c) The period of understanding.
(d) The period of pain.

2. Muhammad realized that the Arabs could never be an independent polity unless they were unified. Under what were they unified?
(a) The publishing of the Quran.
(b) His preachings.
(c) The preachings of the Torah.
(d) The preachings of the Bible.

3. With the revelation of ____________, he began to believe that he was the Prophet and that God was sending him the messages.
(a) Sura 87.
(b) Sura 101.
(c) Sura 93.
(d)

4. There was more understanding of Islam by the eighteenth century. How did Islam become accepted?
(a) As a pagan religion.
(b) As a form of Judaism.
(c) As a legitimate religion.
(d) As a form of Christianity.

5. What is Islam seen as a breakaway corrupt version of?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Hinduism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arabs made a yearly pilgrimage which began where and proceeded to the shrines of other gods?

2. After his first encounter with the angel Gabriel, how did Muhammad react?

3. What happened when Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses?

4. This section examines ___________ the Prophet Muhammad and looks at how it developed.

5. Why did these people feel threatened by Muhammad and his beliefs?

(see the answer key)

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