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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Arabs made a yearly pilgrimage which began where and proceeded to the shrines of other gods?
(a) At the Jalal-ud-Din Rumi.
(b) At the Ka'aba.
(c) At the Gnouia.
(d) At the Mazar-e-Sharif.

5. How much is known about the early life of Muhammad?
(a) Not much.
(b) Everything.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Quite a bit.

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

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

8. What did many scholars like Martin Luther feel that Christianity would be overcome by?
(a) The Catholic Church.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Islam.

9. With what was conversion to monotheism associated?
(a) A powerful God.
(b) Rules and laws.
(c) Loss of political autonomy and subjugation to imperialistic control.
(d) Unity.

10. In 850, the monk Perfectus denounced the Prophet. Who put him to death?
(a) The Christians.
(b) The Jews.
(c) The Meccans.
(d) The Qadi.

11. What is Jahiliyah used to describe?
(a) Arab society during Muhammad's period of preaching.
(b) Arab society after Muhammad's death.
(c) Arab society after Khadija's death.
(d) Arab society before Muhammad.

12. What did muruwah prevent?
(a) Famine.
(b) War.
(c) Religion.
(d) Any form of Arab unity.

13. What happened when Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses?
(a) The Muslims imprisoned him.
(b) Muslims reacted positively.
(c) It caused an uproar in the Muslim world.
(d) The Muslim world ignored him.

14. After reading the Quran, who did Luther feel was the real enemy?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) The Jews.
(c) The Catholic Church and the pope.
(d) Islam.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Were there any scriptures for Islam?

3. During the era of the Crusades, what was Islam viewed as the enemy of?

4. How did the Arabs view both Christianity and Judaism?

5. What does Armstrong believe that a religion should not be judged on the basis of ?

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