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Islam: Empire of Faith DVD Worksheet
____1.
What fraction of the people on
earth are Muslim?
a. Nearly 1/8
b. Nearly 1/4
c. Nearly 1/3
d. Nearly 1/2
____5.
Both of Muhammad’s parents had
died by the time he was what age?
a. 2
b. 6
c. 12
d. 15
____2.
Which of the following things does
the muezzin say when he is calling the
faithful to prayer?
a. “I testify Muhammad is the
messenger of God.”
b. “God is most great.”
c. “I testify there is no other god but
God.”
d. “Come and pray.”
e. All of the above.
____6.
After his parents died, who raised
Muhammad?
a. His grandparents
b. His sister
c. His uncle
____3.
Which of the following was a
contribution that Muslim scholars made
to Western civilization?
a. They reclaimed the wisdom of the
Greeks, while Europeans
languished in the Dark Ages.
b. They gave us the numerals we use
for counting.
c. They sewed the seeds of the
Renaissance, 600 years before the
birth of Leonardo da Vinci.
d. They contributed to the way we
heal the sick.
e. All of the above.
____4.
Approximately when was
Muhammad born?
a. 570 AD
b. 320 AD
c. 650 AD
d. 430 AD
____7.
How did being an orphan affect
Muhammad?
a. It made him resent rich people.
b. It made him reject his tribe.
c. It gave him a concern for people
who are left out of society.
____8.
How did the Bedouins know about
their ancestors and stories of their tribes?
a. From their poetry
b. From their scholars, who wrote
their history down
c. From their priests
____9.
What was the most important
possession that Bedouin tribes fought to
protect?
a. Wells (water)
b. Gold
c. Crops
d. Cattle
____10.
The Kaaba was a cube-shape
structure in Mecca, where
a. the gods of the Bedouin tribes
were kept.
b. merchants conducted their
business.
c. the leaders of the city met to
conduct city affairs.
____11.
According to tradition, who built
the Kaaba?
a. Abraham
b. Moses
c. Muhammad
____12.
Why was the area around the
Kaaba good for business?
a. Because when they were
worshipping, they were in a good
mood, so they bought more.
b. Because there was a zone around
the Kaaba where no weapons were
allowed, so people could buy and
sell in peace.
c. Because the Bedouin religion
taught that a person should always
buys something after they pray.
____13.
What local religions were found in
Mecca?
a. Christians
b. Jews
c. Animists (people who worship
nature spirits)
d. All of the above
____14.
What “aging empires” were linked
with India and China through Mecca?
a. Byzantium and Persia
b. Egypt and Babylonia
c. Greece and Rome
____15.
What was Muhammad’s
profession?
a. A teacher
b. A doctor
c. A merchant
____16.
Who was Khadija?
a. Muhammad’s first student
b. Muhammad’s wife
c. Muhammad’s daughter
____17.
How did Muhammad solve the
dispute over who would have the honor
of returning the Black Stone to the Kaaba
after it had been removed while the
Kaaba was undergoing repairs?
a. He proposed that each of the four
leaders take turns carrying the
stone into the Kaaba.
b. He proposed that the stone should
be carried in on a cloth, with each
of the four leaders holding a
corner.
c. He proposed that the leaders play
Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who
got to carry the stone into the
Kaaba.
____18.
When Muhammad had a vision
that an angel visited him in a cave, what
did the angel instruct him to do?
a. Recite in the name of God the
Almighty
b. Destroy all idols
c. Give money to the poor
____19.
What was the most important
message that Muhammad was to bear to
his people?
a. That there is life after death.
b. That they must fight for their
religion.
c. That there is only one God.
____20.
What was Muhammad’s “social
justice” message?
a. That all idols should be destroyed.
b. That God would punish evildoers.
c. That people should share the
wealth, and that everyone was
equal
____21.
The Quran was revealed orally,
(and originally it was recited orally by
Muhammad), so why did his followers
feel that they needed to write it down?
a. They believed that writing was
more honorable than oral
tradition.
b. They wanted to make sure it was
not corrupted (changed) and the
original message was maintained.
c. They wanted to change some of
the details that they felt were
confusing.
____22.
What language is the Quran
written in?
a. Persian
b. Egyptian
c. Arabic
____23.
Why do Muslims generally not
make pictures of Muhammad (and if they
do, he is shown with a white cloth over
his face)?
a. They don’t want people to see him
as divine, or to pray to the images.
b. He was embarrassed about his
appearance and did not want to be
shown in pictures.
c. Neither of the above
____24.
Which idea was the hardest for the
people of Arabia to believe?
a. The idea of life after death
b. The idea of one god
c. The idea of equality for all
____25.
Why were Muhammad’s teachings
a threat?
a. They were a threat to Mecca’ social
order
b. They were a threat to their age-old
traditions.
c. They were an economic threat
because of the importance of the
Kaaba as a pilgrimage site
d. All of the above
____26.
What did the tribal leaders
demand that Muhammad’s uncle do?
a. Declare that Islam was a false
religion.
b. Remove his clan’s protection from
Muhammad, to clear the way for
his murder.
c. Leave Mecca with his family.
____27.
What happened to followers of
Muhammad who did not have clan
protection?
a. They were tortured and killed.
b. They were driven out of town.
c. They were forced to declare their
belief in their old gods.
____28.
Why did the people of Yathrib
invite Muhammad to come to their city?
a. They needed him to come and
settle their tribal disputes.
b. They were moved by his message
of equality for all.
c. They had heard that he could
perform miracles.
____29.
When Muhammad’s followers left
Mecca to go to Yathrib, they began a new
community. How was this community
bound together?
a. By blood
b. By money
c. By faith
____30.
The journey of Muhammad and his
followers from Mecca to Yathrib is known
as the
a. Hajj
b. Hijrah
c. Ramadan
____31.
As Muhammad’s work succeeded,
the city of Yathrib came to be known as
Madinah, which meant “___.”
a. The holiest city
b. The city of the prophet
c. The first city of Islam
____32.
The call to prayer has within it the
first Islamic pillar, which is the
a. Requirement to give to charity.
b. Requirement to pray five times a
day.
c. Affirmation of God’s unity (that
there is only one God).
____33.
Why is praying together a good
thing?
a. By carrying out the physical
gestures of prayer together, people
feel their bodies, minds and souls
are unified, all at the same
moment.
b. It cements the feeling of belonging
to a movement, a religion, a
community.
c. Both a and b.
____34.
When the Muslims went out to
fight the Meccans, how many were in each
army?
a. 313 Muslims v. 1000 Meccans
b. 1,000 Muslims v. 5000 Meccans
c. 10,000 Muslims v. 15,000 Meccans
____35.
What caused the tide to turn in
favor of the Muslims in the fight between
the Muslims and the Meccans?
a. The Meccans began to lose heart
and many just gave up.
b. The Meccans invented a new
weapon.
c. Bedouin tribes began to join the
Muslim army
____36.
In what year did Muhammad’s
army return to Mecca?
a. 622
b. 630
c. 663
____37.
How were the vanquished
(defeated) people in a tribal war usually
treated?
a. They were given some respect, but
had to pay taxes to the conquerors.
b. The men were killed and the
women and children were sold
into slavery
c. They were required to swear
allegiance, and then they were
allowed to join with their
conquerors.
____38.
How did Muhammad treat the
Meccans when he returned to the city?
a. He embraced the Meccans who
had fought him for three years.
b. He killed the men and sold the
women and children into slavery.
c. He arrested all of the people who
had attacked his followers before
they went to Mendinah, and put
them on trial.
____39.
What did Muhammad and his
troops do when they went to the Kaaba?
a. They rode around the Kaaba seven
times.
b. They destroyed the idols of the
tribal gods.
c. Both a and b.
____40.
Within 200 years, how far had
Islam spread?
a. Across Arabia
b. From Persia to North Africa
c. From Spain to China
____41.
How far did the Islamic Empire
stretch
a. From Morocco in the west to the
Indus River in the East (where the
border of India is today)
b. Across Arabia
c. Across Europe