WorksheetsThe Islamic World Pretest
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which statement best describes the Arabian Peninsula?
The Arabian Peninsula receives an abundance of
rain each year.
Most early inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula
made a living through farming.
No cities were developed in the Arabian
Peninsula.
Almost all of the Arabian Peninsula is a desert.
What was Arabia’s most important city?
Medina
Mecca
Muscat
Mosul
Who united Arabia under the religion of Islam?
Muhammad
Suleyman I
al-Zahrawi
Ibn Rushd
On what belief did Muhammad base the religion
of Islam?
the belief that there were many gods
the belief that conquered people should convert
to Islam
the belief that there is only one God
the belief that all Muslims had to worship in
Mecca
What is the holy book of Islam?
the Sunna
the Qur’an
shari’a
hadith
What is the center of every Islamic community?
the hadith
the caliph
the imam
the mosque
What issue split Islam into two branches?
the issue over who could succeed Muhammad
the issue regarding the worship of one God
the issue about following the Five Pillars of Islam
the issue over the role of the hadith in daily life
What city became an important center of
learning in Muslim Spain?
Granada
Baghdad
Córdoba
Damascus
What Muslim group ended the Byzantine Empire
and built the largest empire in the world in the
1500s?
the Abbasids
the Ottomans
the Mughals
the Safavids
What contribution did al-Zahrawi make to the
fields of science and philosophy?
He simplified mathematics by using the decimal
number system.
He constructed observatories to plot the
movement of stars.
He revived interest in the works of Greek
philosophers.
He produced a 30-volume medical encyclopedia.
