Chapter 4 Quiz

The Rise of Muslim States

Key Version A
1) What is the key version?
a) A
b) B

7) Where do Muslims travel to for the religious

pilgrimage, known as hajj?
a) Baghdad
b) Cairo
c) Cordoba
d) Damascus
e) Mecca

2)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

What were 3 Muslim groups?

Abbasid, Athenian, Umayyad
Abbasid, Fatimid, Umayyad
Abbasid, Roman, Umayyad
Abbasid, Mesopotamian, Umayyad
Abbasid, Spartan, Umayyad

8)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

3)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

What was the capital city of the Umayyad?

Athens
Baghdad
Damascus
Rome
Sparta

9) Who was the Umayyad leader that escaped

alive?
a) Abd Al-Malik
b) Abu Bakr
c) Abd Al-Rahman
d) Abraham
e) Ali

4)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

What was the capital city of the Abbasid?

Athens
Baghdad
Cairo
Constantinople
Cordoba

5) What is a vocabulary word for a system of

departments and agencies that carry out the
work of a government?
a) Bureaucracy
b) Democracy
c) Oligarchy
d) Mercenary
e) Monarchy
6) Who helped unite Muslims when he
declared Arabic the language of all Muslim
lands and introduced common coinage?
a) Abd Al-Malik
b) Abu Bakr
c) Abd al-Rahman
d) Abraham
e) Ali

What group killed the Umayyad leaders?

Abbasid
Persian
Fatimid
Roman
Spartan

10) What was Muslim Spain known as?

a) Al-Andalus
b) Abd Al-Malik
c) Abd Al-Rahman
d) Athenian
e) Byzantine
11) Baghdad is located between what 2 bodies
of water?
a) Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean
b) Euphrates River, Tigris River
c) Euphrates River, Nile River
d) Indus River, Ganges River
e) Niles River, Tigris River
12) From 600s to 1200s C.E., merchants and
scholars traveled to Baghdad from all places
EXCEPT? (Where did people NOT come
from?)
a) America
b) China
c) India
d) Europe
e) Africa

13) What is a period in which the Abbasids

were at its peak, and supported the arts and
learning?
a) Dark Age
b) Golden Age
c) Iron Age
d) Ice Age
e) Stone Age

19) In 1258 C.E., who captured Baghdad, and

ended the Abbasid dynasty by killing the
Abbasid caliph?
a) Athenians
b) Mongols
c) Persians
d) Romans
e) Spartans

14) In 1055 C.E., who captured Baghdad from

the Abbasids?
a) Athenians
b) Romans
c) Persians
d) Seljuk Turks
e) Spartans

20) What were a major source of wealth for

Abbasid caliphs?
a) Aristocrats
b) Merchants
c) Scholars
d) Slaves
e) Soldiers

15) Who was the religious leader after Baghdad

was captured?
a) Abbasid caliph
b) Fatimid caliph
c) Persian emperor
d) Seljuk leader
e) Umayyad caliph

21)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

16) (True or false) Seljuk Turks would covert to

Islam?
a) True
b) False
17) What was the capital city of the Byzantine
Empire?
a) Athens
b) Baghdad
c) Constantinople
d) Cordoba
e) Damascus
18) What was it called when Christians from
Europe fought the Seljuk Turks?
a) Crusades
b) Hajj
c) Golden Age
d) Pilgrimage
e) Persian Wars

Fatimid was part of what Muslim group?

Catholic
Orthodox
Persian
Shia
Sunni

22) The Fatimid was named after Fatima. What

was Fatimas relationship to Muhammad?
a) Daughter
b) Grandma
c) Mother
d) Sister
e) Wife
23)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

What was the capital city of the Fatimid?

Baghdad
Cairo
Cordoba
Damascus
Rome

24) The capital of the Fatimid is in what

country?
a) Egypt
b) Iran
c) Iraq
d) Morocco
e) Saudi Arabia

25) What was the capital of Al-Andalus?

a) Athens
b) Baghdad
c) Cairo
d) Cordoba
e) Damascus

31) India supplied Arab merchants with (DO

NOW 10/05/2016)
a) Grain and copper.
b) Incense and spices.
c) Ivory and silk.
d) Textiles and spices.

26) Al-Andalus reached the height of its power

when who ruled?
a) Abu Bakr
b) Abd-al-Malik
c) Abd-al-Rahman
d) Abd-al-Rahman II
e) Abd-al-Rahman III

32) Baghdads population was much greater

than that of three other cities, most likely
because it was (DO NOW 10/05/2016)
a) Surrounded by farmland.
b) A major center of trade.
c) Untouched by the plague.
d) The capital of an empire.

27) By 1,000 C.E., what was the largest city in

Western Europe?
a) Athens
b) Cordoba
c) London
d) Paris
e) Rome

33) In what way were Sunnis different from the

Shiites? (DO NOW 10/10/2016)
a) The Sunnis believed in Christianity.
b) The Sunnis did not want the capital to move
from Medina to Damascus.
c) The Sunnis accepted the rule of the
Umayyads.
d) The Sunnis believed that the caliph should
be related to Muhammad.

28) By 1,000 C.E., what did Cordoba NOT

have?
a) Automobiles
b) Lit at night with lamps
c) Paved streets
d) Public gardens
e) Public foundation
29) What was NOT made in Cordoba?
a) Carpets
b) Glass
c) Ivory
d) Paper
e) Silk
30) What did farmers in the Cordoba
countryside NOT grow?
a) Apricots
b) Cherries
c) Figs
d) Rice
e) None of the above, farmers grew all of the
above

34) Which of the following events happened

after the Abbasids were driven out of Egypt
and Tunisia? (DO NOW 10/10/2016)
a) Abd al-Rahman established Umayyad rule
in Spain.
b) The Fatimids set up their caliphate.
c) The Abbasids moved the capital to Baghdad.
d) Abu-Bakr succeeded Muhammad.
35) Why did Muslims begin to study
astronomy? (DO NOW 10/13/2016)
a) They wanted to find a more accurate method
of navigation.
b) They wanted to be able to predict changing
seasons accurately.
c) They wanted to develop an accurate
compass.
d) They wanted to determine the location of
Mecca and times for prayer.
36) Muslim art often featured geometric designs
and images of plants because (DO NOW
10/13/2016)
a) Vegetation in the desert was rarely seen.
b) Geometry was important in Islam.
c) Muslims did not draw humans.
d) Calligraphy is based on geometric design.

37) Muslims greatest contribution to western

civilization was (DO NOW 10/13/2016)
a) using vaults and domes.
b) preserving and advancing knowledge from
previous cultures.
c) Discovering that rays pass from objects to
the eyes.
d) Writing an encyclopedia of geography.
38) A ruler of the Muslim community, viewed
as a successor of Muhammad. (DO NOW
10/17/2016)
a) Caliph
b) Mosque
c) Quran
d) Shia
e) Sunni
39) The Muslim holy book. (DO NOW
10/17/2016)
a) Caliph
b) Mosque
c) Quran
d) Shia
e) Sunni
40) A member of the Muslim group that
accepted the rule of the elected caliphs.
a) Caliph
b) Mosque
c) Quran
d) Shia
e) Sunni