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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Muhammad successful?
(a) After the move to Medina.
(b) Before his move to Medina.
(c) After the conversion of all in Mecca.
(d) Right before his death.

2. Why did Muhammad marry Sawdah?
(a) So she could run his household.
(b) She was his deceased brother's wife.
(c) He needed a wife.
(d) He was in love with her.

3. When were the Muslims attacked?
(a) While traveling.
(b) At night.
(c) During religious meetings.
(d) During their prayers or salat.

4. What is the name for Sura 93?
(a) The Sura of the Morning.
(b) The Sura of God.
(c) The Sura of the Poor.
(d) The Sura of the Night.

5. The rift in the community became bad. What did Muhammad have to do for some of the Muslims?
(a) He had to hide them.
(b) He had to find them a new home.
(c) He had to give some to the Quraysh.
(d) He had to keep them in Mecca.

6. What did the Meccans knew they had to prevent Muhammad from doing?
(a) Living.
(b) Preaching.
(c) Entering their city.
(d) Leaving the city.

7. The Quran began to preach what type of treatment for prisoners?
(a) Torture.
(b) Fair and humane.
(c) Unfair.
(d) Starvation.

8. What was the message of Sura 93?
(a) People are to care for everyone.
(b) People are supposed to have faith in al-Llah.
(c) People were supposed to care for the disadvantaged.
(d) People are to put God first.

9. In response to Sura 93, what did Muhammad do?
(a) He began to pray to God.
(b) He studied the Torah.
(c) He kept quiet for two years.
(d) He began his mission in 612.

10. The six pilgrims returned in 622. They met with Muhammad and others in what is known as __________ to discuss the conversion of the tribe.
(a) The First Aqaba.
(b) The Aqaba.
(c) The Second Aqaba.
(d) The Third Aqaba.

11. During the hajj to Mecca, Muhammad looked for a protector among the pilgrims. He found six pilgrims from where who quickly accepted Islam and would return to their tribe to try to convert them. Where were they located?
(a) Medina.
(b) Mecca.
(c) Yathrib.
(d) Saudi.

12. The Muslims and the Jews were supposed to live in peace together. What decreed this peace?
(a) The Jew's law.
(b) Muhammad's law.
(c) God's covenant with the Israelites.
(d) The terms of the covenant into which they entered.

13. In 627-628, what did Muhammad begin to do?
(a) Doubt his power.
(b) Become ill.
(c) Forget the Quran.
(d) Build an alliance with different tribes.

14. Who were the Meccans unable to get rid of?
(a) The Jews.
(b) Muhammad and the umma.
(c) The Yathrib.
(d) The Christians.

15. When did Muhammad's wife Khadija die?
(a) In 719.
(b) In 619.
(c) In 819.
(d) In 519.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people did not, in general, accept Muhammad's teachings?

2. What did Muhammad believe himself to be?

3. Muhammad and Gabriel climbed the ladder through the seven heavens. Where did they reach?

4. Much of the references in the Quran are symbolic. What are the followers encouraged to do?

5. In Medina, he began to work for Arab unity. What happened to the Quran?

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