Lesson 3 Quiz Muslim Innovations and Adaptations

1. A Muslim house of worship is called a(n) .

• church

• synagogue

• mosque

• temple

Muslim cities had marketplaces called ______________that were filled with

shops and stalls where goods were sold.

• mall

• bazaar

• supermarket

• Walmart

3. A(n) is a tower from which believers are called to prayer.

• butress

• bell tower

• spire

• minaret

4. Muslim astronomers improved a tool called the ________, which sailors

used to determine their position at sea.

• compass

• astrolabe

The people at the lowest level of Muslim society who had no power at all in government

were the ____________ _______.

• enslaved people

• merchants

• women

• sultan

6. Muslim rulers advanced Muslim civilization by spreading the Arabic language

and providing merchants with

• A. banks.

• B. business records.

• C. coins.

• D. education.

7. In Muslim society, social groups were based on

• A. education.

• B. family connections.

• C. power and wealth.

• D. religious beliefs.

8. Who was the Persian doctor who showed how diseases were spread from

person to person?

• A. al-Razi

• B. Ibn Khaldun

• C. Ibn Sina

• D. al-Khawarizmi

9. Among his many talents, Omar Khayyam is best known as the poet who wrote

• A. The Arabian Nights.

• B. The House of Wisdom.

• C. Muqaddimah.

• D. the Rubaiyat.

20. Because Muslims are forbidden to create icons and idols, most Muslims

artisans focused on .

• A. designs of plants, stars, and patterns

• B. plays about the life of Mohammed

• C. building large sailing battleships

• D. portraits of sultans and their wives