WH - Ch 9, Sec 1 Question Preview (ID: 62423)


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What is a bazaar?
a) A covered marketplace where goods from all over the known world were sold
b) A palace for caliphs or other important officials
c) A trade center for wealthy merchants and exclusive clientele.
d) A type of art work used to decorate Arabic letters.

The extensive trade carried on by the Arabs utilized
a) horse-drawn wagons
b) mule carts
c) ships and camel caravans
d) wagons pulled by slave labor

What did Egypt supply to Arab traders?
a) grain
b) linens
c) silk and porcelain
d) spices

Islamic law stated that slaves
a) could not be Muslims.
b) could not be owned by Muslims.
c) could not purchase their own freedom.
d) could not serve in the army.

According to the Quran, women were
a) spiritually and socially below men.
b) spiritually and socially equal to men.
c) spiritually below men but socially equal to men
d) spiritually equal but socially below men.

Most Muslim men had
a) four wives because the Quran required it.
b) only one wife because the Quran restricted men to one spouse.
c) only one wife because they had to pay a dowry for each wife.
d) two or three wives because the Quran allowed it.

Islamic art featured natural plants, abstract patterns, and
a) Arabic letters.
b) pictures of animals.
c) illustrations of Muslim men and women in prayer.
d) images of Muhammad.

An arabesque is
a) a covered marketplace.
b) an Islamic temple.
c) a person who calls the Muslim faithful to prayer.
d) a repeating geometric pattern.

Ibn-Rushd was an Arab scholar who wrote a commentary on
a) Aristotle's works.
b) higher mathematics.
c) Islamic architecture.
d) religion in Islamic art.

Perfected by Arab scientists, the astrolabe
a) allowed doctors to perform delicate surgery.
b) helped sailors determine where they were.
c) increased the amount of grain farmers could grow.
d) proved that the earth is round.

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