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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Jahiliyah.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jahiliyah used to describe?
(a) Arab society after Muhammad's death.
(b) Arab society after Khadija's death.
(c) Arab society before Muhammad.
(d) Arab society during Muhammad's period of preaching.

2. The Arabs had a spiritual life under the muruwah and holy places like the shrines at Mecca and other places. The most important shrine was ________ at Mecca which played an important part in the life of Muhammad and other people.
(a) The Ka'aba.
(b) The Jalal-ud-Din Rumi.
(c) The Mazar-e-Sharif.
(d) The Gnouia.

3. What did the age of the Renaissance result in?
(a) More objectivity as thinkers tried to develop an understanding of the Muslim world.
(b) Less objectivity as thinkers were persecuted for defending the Muslims.
(c) More fighting.
(d) Less negotiations, because the Christians decided to go to war instead.

4. What empire spread into the Arab lands?
(a) The Persian Empire.
(b) The Islamic Empire.
(c) The British Empire.
(d) The Byzantine Empire.

5. What led the author to look at the religion and at the Prophet Muhammad?
(a) Staying with a Muslim family.
(b) Doing mission work in the Middle East.
(c) The Quran.
(d) The inaccurate Western views.

Short Answer Questions

1. Was Salman Rushdie's the first denunciation of the Prophet by a Muslim?

2. In what century did an Arab merchant named Muhammad live in Mecca?

3. Were there common laws among the tribes?

4. What do the Muslim religious authorities think about fatwa and the taking of lives?

5. The view of the Muslim world changed to one that the Muslim world would never be conquered by war or missionary activities. What did it become important to do?

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