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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Umar decide would be the best way to deal with the problem of Islam?
(a) By kidnapping Muhammad.
(b) By outlawing Islam.
(c) By killing Muhammad.
(d) By converting people from Islam.

2. How many people journeyed in Islam's first immigration?
(a) About eighty.
(b) About one hundred.
(c) About one hundred and thirty.
(d) About fifty.

3. What did the people who did not believe think God should do in order to send his messages?
(a) Communicate through dreams.
(b) Resurrect the deceased.
(c) Create natural disasters.
(d) Send an angel.

4. What did Gabriel reproach Muhammad for not saying in Chapter 26?
(a) "God is great."
(b) "In service of God."
(c) "If God will."
(d) "God be with you."

5. Which of Muhammad's senses was reputed to be excellent?
(a) His sense of taste.
(b) His sense of smell.
(c) His eyesight.
(d) His hearing.

6. What was the name of Hashim's brother?
(a) Abraha.
(b) Abu Talib.
(c) Abdullah.
(d) Muttalib.

7. What did the Quraysh debate about at almost every gathering?
(a) Raising an army.
(b) Destroying Mecca's holy sites.
(c) Taking the tribe to another area.
(d) What to do with Muhammad.

8. What happened when the first stone of the Ka'bah was lifted in Chapter 14?
(a) It turned to white after being put in place.
(b) It crumbled.
(c) It fell and crushed a man.
(d) It returned to its previous place.

9. What did the Quraysh want Muhammad to prove?
(a) That he had been visited by angels.
(b) That his message was God-sent.
(c) That he was descended from Abraham.
(d) That his followers were peaceful.

10. Who did Hashim ask to marry him in Chapter 3?
(a) A woman from the oasis at Ta'if.
(b) A woman from the oasis at Medina.
(c) A woman from the oasis at Yathrib.
(d) A woman from the oasis at Mount Hira.

11. What was the girl who was carried in Chapter 33 wrapped in?
(a) Animal hide.
(b) Linen.
(c) Silk.
(d) Cotton.

12. What was buried along with the well?
(a) Hagar.
(b) Treasure.
(c) A map.
(d) Religious texts.

13. In Chapter 31, where did Muhammad take refuge?
(a) At the camp of a Bedouin tribe.
(b) At Ka'bah.
(c) In a cave.
(d) In the mosque.

14. Who was the Negus?
(a) An idolator.
(b) A King.
(c) A tribal chief.
(d) A fortune teller.

15. What did the angel get Muhammad to do before leaving in Chapter 15?
(a) Light a fire.
(b) Recite a verse.
(c) Kneel before him.
(d) Sacrifice a lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Halimah?

2. Who was Umar?

3. Though he was considered too young, in how many battles did Muhammad fight?

4. How did the people travel in the first immigration?

5. What did Shaybah's visions tell him to do?

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