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