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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the first three years of his preaching, Muhammad developed a small group of followers. Why did they meet twice a day for prayer?
(a) The Quran was meant to be chanted in a group environment and not read in private.
(b) To spend time with each other.
(c) To witness Muhammad's mystical experiences.
(d) To learn more about the Quran.

2. Muhammad vowed not to leave the area until when?
(a) He had died.
(b) He had killed the Quraysh.
(c) He had a confrontation with the Quraysh.
(d) He had been converted.

3. Islam is based on the observance of customs or _________.
(a) Orthopedic.
(b) Orthostatic.
(c) Orthodoxy.
(d) Orthopraxy.

4. Did those emigrating to Medina kill the Meccans in the big caravan at Badr?
(a) No, they let them go free.
(b) Yes.
(c) No, they took prisoners and held them for ransom.
(d) No, they tortured them.

5. The Quran began to preach what type of treatment for prisoners?
(a) Torture.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Fair and humane.
(d) Unfair.

6. What did Muhammad believe himself to be?
(a) A nadijir.
(b) A nadihir.
(c) A nadijeen.
(d) A nadibu.

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

8. What did the people of Mecca and Medina continue to attack?
(a) Each other's caravans.
(b) Muhammad's caravans.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) The Yathrib's caravans.

9. With Khadija gone, with whom did Muhammad find refuge with?
(a) Al-Llah.
(b) His sister.
(c) His children.
(d) His uncle.

10. Who were among the first members of the Muslim community?
(a) The disadvantaged.
(b) Christians.
(c) The intelligent.
(d) The wealthy.

11. What did Muslims feel that Rushdie's portrayal of the Quran indicate?
(a) Muhammad made a mistake.
(b) Much is missing from Islam and the Quran.
(c) The inability to distinguish between good and evil.
(d) Rushdie knows much about Islam.

12. When the leaders converted, what did the rest of the tribe do?
(a) They feared their leaders.
(b) They fought their leaders.
(c) They ran away.
(d) They converted.

13. What do many believe when Muhammad is knocked unconscious in a battle?
(a) He had been killed.
(b) He will be resurrected.
(c) He will not be the same when he wakes.
(d) He is injured.

14. During the hajj to Mecca, Muhammad looked for a protector among the pilgrims. He found six pilgrims from where who quickly accepted Islam and would return to their tribe to try to convert them. Where were they located?
(a) Saudi.
(b) Mecca.
(c) Yathrib.
(d) Medina.

15. His message was to create a just society. What would this society have?
(a) Religious law.
(b) Love for all mankind.
(c) Decent treatment of the disadvantaged and society's wealth was distributed.
(d) Forced conversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the harassment of Muhammad by the Quraysh result in?

2. These tribal leaders adopted the Jewish name of ______ for their town.

3. What happens to Muhammad when his uncle dies?

4. When would Muhammad could meet these pilgrims?

5. Much of the references in the Quran are symbolic. What are the followers encouraged to do?

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