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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what does Muhammad believe that he is comforted, as he believes after every encounter?
(a) His dead mother.
(b) The dead Khadijah.
(c) God.
(d) His dead uncle.

2. Where do most of the Western views of Islam come from?
(a) War experiences.
(b) Reading the Quran.
(c) Reports in the media.
(d) Experiences with Muslims in the West.

3. What period does the challenge of Islam to the West date back?
(a) The Roman Empire.
(b) The Persian Empire.
(c) The British Empire.
(d) The Ottoman Empire.

4. People made the hijra when they left their tribe and joined the umma. What is the umma?
(a) The political circle of Medina.
(b) The new community unit.
(c) The new religious group.
(d) The trading system.

5. Whose work did a revelation reveal that this apparent concession came from?
(a) God.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Satan.
(d) Muhammad.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was loyalty due in the various groups?

2. What did muruwah prevent?

3. Was the published version based on the order in which Muhammad preached the teachings?

4. The views that the Europeans developed during the period of the Crusades carried over into the present day and became intensified as what happened?

5. With Khadija gone, with whom did Muhammad find refuge with?

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