4-3 Muslim Cultural Achievements Quiz

Who was featured in The Thousand and One Nights?

• Aladin

• Apu

• Ibn Rushed

• Shah Jahan

This tool was used by Arabs scholars to figure out their location on earth so they would know which way to face for prayer.

• monocle

• astrolabe

• microscope

• telescope

Who was the chemist who first labeled substances and about smallpox and measles?

• Taj Mahal

• Al-Razi

• Omar Khayyam

• Ibn Sina

a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.

• Mosque

• Minaret

• Quibla

• Muezzin

The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space

• Astronomy

• Astrology

• Zoology

• Astrolabe

____________________ borrowed the numerical system and zero from Indian scholars. His work resulted in the Arabic numbering system that is still used in most of the world. He also wrote the first book about Algebra.

• Omar Khayyam
• Al-Khwarizmi
• Abd al-Rahman
• Maimonides

Muslims contributed to Geography and Navigation by ________

• building mosques and palaces
• creating travel guide books and more accurate maps 
• using maps created by the Goths
• paying Chinese scholars to make maps

The myth of the Indian Ocean being surrounded by land was disproved by whom????

• Ibn Battutah

• al-Idrisi

• al-Khwarizmi

• Ar-Razi

Sufism teaches that people can find God's love by having a personal relationship with??????

• God

• Family

• Yourself

• Animals

Calligraphy was used to decorate all of the following EXCEPT.....

• Mosques

• tiles

• carpets

• wood etchings