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Ch 11 Test 8th World history
  • 1. a group of traveling merchants and animals
A) oasis
B) Bedouin
C) Quran
D) caravan
E) sheikh
  • 2. the holy book of Islam
A) Quran
B) sheikh
C) oasis
D) Bedouin
E) caravan
  • 3. a desert herder who went from place to place
A) Bedouin
B) oasis
C) caravan
D) Quran
E) sheikh
  • 4. a green area fed by underground water
A) oasis
B) sheikh
C) Bedouin
D) caravan
E) Quran
  • 5. the head of a tribe
A) Bedouin
B) caravan
C) Quran
D) oasis
E) sheikh
  • 6. means “holder of power”
A) sultan
B) Mogul
C) Shiite
D) caliph
E) Sunni
  • 7. successor to the Messenger of God
A) caliph
B) Sunni
C) sultan
D) Shiite
E) Mogul
  • 8. people who believed that Ali’s descendants should rule Islam
A) Shiite
B) Mogul
C) sultan
D) Sunni
E) caliph
  • 9. people who created a Muslim empire in India
A) sultan
B) Sunni
C) caliph
D) Shiite
E) Mogul
  • 10. people who believed that the Umayyad dynasty should rule Islam
A) Sunni
B) Shiite
C) caliph
D) Mogul
E) sultan
  • 11. Muslim houses of worship
A) al-Razi
B) crier
C) bazaar
D) minaret
E) mosque
  • 12. the best-known Muslim chemist
A) bazaar
B) al-Razi
C) minaret
D) crier
E) mosque
  • 13. a person who calls believers to prayer five times a day
A) mosque
B) al-Razi
C) minaret
D) bazaar
E) crier
  • 14. the marketplace
A) mosque
B) bazaar
C) minaret
D) crier
E) al-Razi
  • 15. a tower from which believers are called to prayer
A) minaret
B) crier
C) bazaar
D) mosque
E) al-Razi
  • 16. ____ cover(s) most of the Arabian Peninsula.
A) Mountains
B) Swamp
C) Grassy plains
D) Desert
  • 17. The early Arabians worshiped many gods and goddesses but ____ was considered to be the most important.
A) Makkah
B) Bedouin
C) Kaaba
D) Allah
  • 18. The prophet ____ was also the founder of the Islamic faith.
A) Yathrib
B) Muhammad
C) Abu Talib
D) Madinah
  • 19. Muslims, Jews, and Christians have a common belief in ____.
A) fasting.
B) gods and goddesses.
C) pilgrimage.
D) one God.
  • 20. The Quran provided Muslims with guidelines for daily life and
A) schools
B) commerce.
C) government.
D) farming
  • 21. The first caliph to take over after Muhammad’s death was
A) Umar
B) Uthman
C) Ali.
D) Abu Bakr.
  • 22. Similar to Christian missionaries, ____ spread the teachings of Islam.
A) Shiites
B) Caliphs
C) Sufis
D) Sunnis
  • 23. Soon after Muhammad’s death, the Muslim world split into what two groups?
A) Caliphs and Sufis
B) Sufis and Sunnis
C) Shiites and Caliphs
D) Sunnis and Shiites
  • 24. This famous Ottoman sultan was a man of many talents.
A) Akbar
B) Uthman
C) Abu al-Abbas
D) Suleiman I
  • 25. This great Mogul ruler brought peace and order to India in the 1500s.
A) Suleiman I
B) Akbar
C) Abu al-Abbas
D) Uthman
  • 26. Muslim traders were successful because they spread the Arabic language and provided merchants with
A) business records.
B) coins
C) banks
D) education.
  • 27. In Muslim society, social groups were based on
A) power and wealth.
B) family connections.
C) religious beliefs.
D) education
  • 28. ____ was a Persian doctor who showed how diseases were spread from person to person.
A) Omar Khayyam
B) al-Razi
C) Ibn Sina
D) Ibn Khaldun
  • 29. Among his many talents, Omar Khayyam is best known as the poet who wrote
A) The House of Wisdom.
B) the Rubaiyat.
C) Muqaddimah
D) The Arabian Nights.
  • 30. The Mogul ruler Shah Jahan built ____, a Muslim tomb, for his wife in Agra, India.
A) the Alhambra
B) the Mosque
C) The House of Wisdom
D) the Taj Mahal
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