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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long did Muhammad preach?
(a) The next twenty years.
(b) The next twenty-three years.
(c) The next fifteen years.
(d) The next ten years.

2. There was more understanding of Islam by the eighteenth century. How did Islam become accepted?
(a) As a legitimate religion.
(b) As a form of Judaism.
(c) As a form of Christianity.
(d) As a pagan religion.

3. After his first encounter with the angel Gabriel, how did Muhammad react?
(a) He was terrified and wanted to commit suicide.
(b) He became mute.
(c) He was strengthened.
(d) He was confused.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Did Muhammad claim any divinity?

2. How was the Muslim Empire viewed?

3. What empire spread into the Arab lands?

4. How was the Quran revealed to Muhammad?

5. Why are most Muslims insulted by the use of the term regarding Muhammad's illiteracy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Salman Rushdie publishes The Satanic Verses? How is this act a reminder of other acts against Islam by Muslims?

2. What did Muhammad do during the last twenty-three years of his life? Why did he do this?

3. What happened in 610?

4. How did the Renaissance help relations between Islam and Christianity?

5. Describe Arab life at this time.

6. When and why did Muhammad begin sharing God's message?

7. According to Armstrong, on what are most Western views of Islam based?

8. How have the feelings of Europeans towards Muslims developed since the initial fear and hatred began? What has caused this development? To what have these feelings towards Muslims led?

9. According to Armstrong, where do most Western views of Islam stem from? What facts does she give about Islam?

10. What holy places were important to the Arabs? Why were these places so important?

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