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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some who did not believe ask Muhammad to do in Chapter 23?
(a) Turn the sky red.
(b) Split the moon.
(c) Drink from the Zimzam.
(d) Lead his followers out of Mecca.

2. What did Shaybah dig with when he thought he had found the site of the well?
(a) A coconut shell.
(b) An axe.
(c) His hands.
(d) A shovel.

3. Where did God guide Hagar and her son?
(a) A mountain called Moriah.
(b) The city of Medina.
(c) The Jordan River.
(d) A valley called Becca.

4. What happened when the first stone of the Ka'bah was lifted in Chapter 14?
(a) It turned to white after being put in place.
(b) It returned to its previous place.
(c) It fell and crushed a man.
(d) It crumbled.

5. Who was the Negus?
(a) A fortune teller.
(b) A tribal chief.
(c) A King.
(d) An idolator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Quraysh debate about at almost every gathering?

2. How did the people of the Quraysh normally respond to new religions?

3. What were the believers of Muhammad disappointed by in Chapter 24?

4. In the end, how many daily prayers became the creed of Islam?

5. Who stopped coming to the temple of Abraham?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Muhammad ask his mother's family for in Chapter 31, and who eventually answered his request?

2. Who was Hagar and why was she forced from Abraham's household?

3. What happened when the Quraysh began to rebuild the Ka'bah?

4. How did the first bloodshed in Islam occur?

5. As persecution of his followers continued, what did Muhammad urge them to do?

6. In Chapter 11, how did the Quraysh get involved in a war and what role did Muhammad play in it?

7. Who did Muhammad marry and how did they meet?

8. After the Muslims of Mecca began to immigrate to Yathrib, what did Abu Jahl propose?

9. What is significant about the cup that was passed around in Chapter 17?

10. Along with Muhammad's persecuted followers, who else travelled to Abyssinia?

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