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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Western view of Muhammad?
(a) He was an impostor who tried to deceive the world by portraying himself as a prophet.
(b) He was a prophet.
(c) He was the Messiah for the Arabs.
(d) He was Jesus' friend.

3. What did the age of the Renaissance result in?
(a) Less objectivity as thinkers were persecuted for defending the Muslims.
(b) More objectivity as thinkers tried to develop an understanding of the Muslim world.
(c) Less negotiations, because the Christians decided to go to war instead.
(d) More fighting.

4. Was Salman Rushdie's the first denunciation of the Prophet by a Muslim?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Most likely.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

5. What does Armstrong believe that a religion should not be judged on the basis of ?
(a) Its beliefs.
(b) The actions of the masses.
(c) Its religious laws.
(d) The actions of the extremists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the Quran revealed to Muhammad?

2. Muhammad realized that the Arabs could never be an independent polity unless they were unified. Under what were they unified?

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

4. To what has Western behavior in the Islamic world led?

5. What led to so many executions for both Muslims and Christians?

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