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Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Which leader unified Arabia into a Muslim state through battle?
a. Babur
c. Abu Bakr
b. Mehmed II
d. Akbar
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2. After Muhammad’s death, the title given to Islam’s highest leaders was
a. successor.
c. sultan.
b. caliph.
d. emperor.
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3. Which is the best prediction of what might have happened if the Berbers had kept fighting the
Muslims?
a. The Berbers would have converted to Christianity instead.
b. Muslim rule would have spread more slowly in North Africa.
c. The Muslims would have conquered France.
d. Berber rule would have spread more quickly to Europe.
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4. Muslim merchants could trade with people in many different areas because
a. Islam had spread to many lands.
b. the Ottoman Empire had gained control of many regions.
c. they established many new trade routes.
d. Arabia was at a crossroads location.
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5. Why did the Abbasids reorganize the government?
a. to give the Berbers more control
b. to make it easier to rule their large region
c. to prevent their empire from growing
d. to share power with conquered peoples
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6. Which of the following areas was not conquered by the Muslims during the 600s?
a. the Persian Empire
c. North Africa
b. the Byzantine Empire
d. Spain
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7. Tolerance was
a. the Muslim practice of accepting other people’s religious beliefs.
b. the Muslim practice of converting others to Islam.
c. the Muslim practice of allowing only Christians to practice their religion.
d. a practice introduced to the Muslims by the Berbers.
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8. Which of the following did the Arabs copy from the Persians?
a. their method for growing rice and oranges
b. their use of gunpowder
c. their form of government bureaucracy
d. their system for making paper
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9. In what way were Córdoba and Baghdad similar?
a. They were both located in what is now Iraq.
b. They both had public water and lighting systems.
c. They were both centers of culture and learning.
d. They both exported valuable textiles and jewelry.
____ 10. What can you infer about how the scholars at Córdoba’s university influenced the spread of
Islam?
a. They helped it by translating writings produced in the Muslim world.
b. They helped it by teaching Muslim leaders to write in Latin.
c. They restricted it by only writing in Latin.
d. They restricted it by only translating Christian writings.
____ 11. The exchange of beliefs and customs between the Muslims and the people they conquered
caused
a. Judaism and Christianity to spread. c. the Muslim Empire to shrink.
b. their cultures to blend.
d. trade to become less important.
____ 12. In what way did the practice of tolerance affect the Jewish people of Córdoba?
a. They were able to contribute to the city’s cultural growth.
b. They were required to convert to Islam.
c. They were required to practice their religion in secret.
d. They were allowed to export textiles and jewelry.
____ 13. In what way were the effects of trade and tolerance on the Muslim world similar?
a. They both allowed other cultures to influence the Muslim world.
b. They both made new products available to Muslims.
c. They both caused Muslims to ignore the influence of other cultures.
d. They both caused Islam to stop spreading.
____ 14. Janissaries were
a. prisoners taken by the Mughal Empire.
b. Sunni Muslim soldiers in the Safavid Empire.
c. slave soldiers in the Ottoman army.
d. Muslim soldiers who converted to Christianity.
____ 15. Which Ottoman leader became known as “the Conqueror”?
a. Suleyman I
c. Esma’il
b. Mehmed II
d. ´Abbas
____ 16. During Suleyman I’s rule, the Ottoman Empire
a. took control of the Eastern Mediterranean and parts of Europe.
b. defeated the Byzantine Empire.
c. turned the Hagia Sophia church into a mosque.
d. expanded into Anatolia and conquered Syria and Egypt.
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I am committed to this action; God and the Immaculate Imams are with me, and I
fear no one.
In the above passage, Esma’il is referring to his
a. decision to make Shiism the official religion of his empire.
b. plan to convert Christians to Islam.
c. idea to turn the Hagia Sofia into a mosque.
d. goal to make Constantinople the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
____ 18. The leader of the Safavid Empire was called the
a. emperor.
c. shah.
b. Imam.
d. sultan.
____ 19. Which of the following best summarizes ´Abbas’s influence on the Safavid economy?
a. He ignored it to focus on conquering lands.
b. He helped it by encouraging the manufacture of traditional products.
c. He hurt it by not allowing the people to trade in textiles or carpets.
d. He helped it by establishing new trade routes.
____ 20. Akbar’s tolerant religious policy helped
a. to convert more people to Islam.
b. to unify the Mughal Empire.
c. to end the warfare between Hindus and Muslims.
d. to establish the Mughal Empire in 1526.
____ 21. Which of the following is true of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires?
a. They were ruled by leaders called shahs.
b. They practiced religious tolerance throughout their entire history.
c. They tried to expand their territory through warfare.
d. They wanted to convert other Muslims to Shiism.
____ 22. After failing to establish an empire in Central Asia, where did Babur succeed in 1526?
a. Syria
c. Istanbul
b. Iraq
d. India
____ 23. Which of the following was the key reason the Mughal Empire collapsed?
a. Its emperors spent too much money building great monuments.
b. It expanded so much that the emperors could no longer rule effectively.
c. Its tolerant religious policies were changed and the people revolted.
d. It was attacked by both the Ottoman and Safavid empires.
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____ 24. In terms of importance to the spread of knowledge in the Islamic world, which would you rank
first?
a. The scholars made advances in math and science.
b. The scholars spoke different languages.
c. The scholars came from different cultures.
d. The scholars all understood Arabic.
____ 25. Arab scholars used the astrolabe
a. to build mosques and palaces.
b. to translate ancient writings.
c. to figure out their location on earth.
d. to develop a new type of math.
____ 26. Muslim calligraphy was a combination of
a. science and mathematics.
c. art and science.
b. art and literature.
d. astronomy and geography.
____ 27. What significant geographical discovery did al-Idrisi make?
a. The valley of al-Ukaydir was surrounded by desert.
b. Land did not go all the way around the Indian Ocean.
c. Arabia was a crossroads location.
d. The Muslim empires had expanded into Asia.
____ 28. Al-Khwarizmi’s book about al-jabr was significant because it was the
a. first medical textbook.
b. first Arabic text translated into Latin.
c. foundation for modern algebra.
d. first work to study the movement of the planets.
____ 29. Ar-Razi
a. discovered how to diagnose and treat smallpox.
b. improved the astrolabe.
c. gathered information to make new maps.
d. led the spiritual movement known as Sufism.
____ 30. The Sufism movement was a reaction against
a. the expansion of Islam into parts of Europe.
b. the blending of other cultures with Islam.
c. the developments by Muslims in astronomy.
d. the interest of Muslims in worldly things.
____ 31. Minarets were used to
a. store Islamic texts.
b. hold translations of poetry.
c. call Muslims to prayer.
d. decorate mosques.
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____ 32. In what way did mosques change as the Muslim world grew richer?
a. They became more elaborately decorated.
b. Artwork showing people and animals were added to them.
c. Fewer domes were added to them.
d. They began to be built to look like the courtyard of Muhammad’s house.
____ 33. Who was one of the most famous Sufi poets?
a. Ibn Battutah
c. Ar-Razi
b. Omar Khayyám
d. ´Abbas
____ 34. Which of the following is true of Muslim art, architecture, and science?
a. They became more important than religion in the Muslim world.
b. Muslims were only interested in them if they helped spread Islam.
c. They were all influenced in some way by the Muslim religion.
d. Islam would not have spread without them.
____ 35. Which of the following was not true of Muslim calligraphy?
a. It was painted onto tiles.
b. It was used in captions for paintings.
c. It was woven into carpets.
d. It was hammered into steel sword blades.
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