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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Jahiliyah.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Quran a source of information?
(a) The history of Muhammad's life.
(b) The New Testament.
(c) The history of Muhammad's Islamic community.
(d) The Old Testament.

2. Were there common laws among the tribes?
(a) None except that deaths were avenged by killing an equal number of members of the murderers' tribe.
(b) Yes, many.
(c) No, none.
(d) Yes, a few.

3. Why did the Muslim world react this way to The Satanic Verses?
(a) These verses were unimportant.
(b) They gave an unfavorable view of non-Muslims.
(c) They gave a favorable view of the Prophet.
(d) They gave an unfavorable view of the Prophet.

4. The Arabs had a spiritual life under the muruwah and holy places like the shrines at Mecca and other places. The most important shrine was ________ at Mecca which played an important part in the life of Muhammad and other people.
(a) The Gnouia.
(b) The Mazar-e-Sharif.
(c) The Ka'aba.
(d) The Jalal-ud-Din Rumi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Arab society at this time was characterized by who?

2. With what was conversion to monotheism associated?

3. Where do most of the Western views of Islam come from?

4. How was the Prophet Muhammad viewed?

5. How was monotheism viewed by the Arabians?

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