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The Roots of Islam Section 1 Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of landform is most of Arabia?

a)

desert

b)

river valleys

c)

an island

2.

What is an oasis?

a)

a desert

b)

a wet, fertile area within a desert

c)

a mountain

3.

Why would a town develop near and oasis?

a)

easily able to spot animals

b)

access to water; could farm there

c)

townspeople would be able to take baths

4.

Where is Arabia?

a)

south of North America

b)

south of Australia

c)

east of Africa

5.

Identify two bodies of water which border Arabia.

a)

Arabian Sea and Red Sea

b)

Aegean Sea and Red Sea

c)

Atlantic Ocean and Arabian Sea

6.

What two ways of life developed in Arabia's desert environment?

a)

gatherers and nomadic

b)

hunters and sedentary

c)

nomadic and sedentary

7.

According to Islamic belief, how did Muhammad get the ideas that started Islam?

a)

received a message form his uncle while meditating

b)

received a message 4rom a friend that someone will be visiting him.

c)

received a message from God from an angel while meditating in a cave.

8.

What is one major belief that is the same in Judaism, Christianity and Islam?

a)

Monotheism or belief in one God

b)

polytheism of belief in many gods

c)

buddhism

9.

The holy book of Islam is called?

a)

Bible

b)

Torah

c)

Qur'an

10.

Why did the wealthy people of Mecca want to harm Muhammad?

a)

Muhammad told the merchants to stop trading goods.

b)

Muhammad told the wealthy; Allah wanted them to give to the poor.

c)

The wealth people of Mecca did not like his family.

11.

A follower of Islam is called a

a)

Catholic

b)

Muslim

c)

Christian

12.

When Muhammad fled Mecca in 622, he went to the city of

a)

Baghdad

b)

Cordoba

c)

Medina

13.

A way of life in which people traveled the deserts with their herds in search of food and water is called

a)

Nomadic

b)

Sedentary

c)

Idle

14.

Means " to submit to God"

a)

Muslim

b)

Islam

c)

Qur'an

15.

A house of worship for Muslims is called

a)

church

b)

temple

c)

mosque