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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What empire spread into the Arab lands?
(a) The British Empire.
(b) The Persian Empire.
(c) The Islamic Empire.
(d) The Byzantine Empire.

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

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

5. When pregnant, Muhammad's mother was told something. What was she told?
(a) She would die in childbirth.
(b) She was to name her child Muhammad.
(c) She was to have a son.
(d) She was to deliver the lord of the Arabs.

6. Muhammad founded a Muslim community. Who eventually accepted this?
(a) The Buddhist world.
(b) The Jewish world.
(c) The Arab world.
(d) The Christian world.

7. The grandfather took the newborn to Ka'aba. What was he told upon his arrival?
(a) He would be intelligent.
(b) He would be wealthy.
(c) He would die at an old age.
(d) He would be a great man.

8. Did Muhammad claim any divinity?
(a) No.
(b) Only early in his preaching.
(c) Yes.
(d) Not at first.

9. Are many of the views and values of Islam similar to those of Judaism and Christianity?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Very few.

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

11. Was Arabia considered to be important to the world powers at this time?
(a) Yes, somewhat important.
(b) No, not important.
(c) Yes, fairly important.
(d) Yes, very important.

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

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

14. Did Muhammad perform miracles like Jesus?
(a) Yes, a few.
(b) Yes, one.
(c) Yes, many.
(d) No.

15. When was the Quran compiled?
(a) In 850.
(b) In 750.
(c) In 550.
(d) In 650.

Short Answer Questions

1. After reading the Quran, who did Luther feel was the real enemy?

2. Is there a great deal of variety in Islam and its practices?

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

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

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

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