LCA 266 Exam Test Questions Complete
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Which of the following enabled empires (such as the Acheminid Empire) to dominate
increasingly extensive territories?
A) Improvements in agriculture and military technology
B) Improvements in transportation and communication
C) The development of social and administrative organizations
D) All of the answers are correct - Answers -✔✔D) All of the answers are correct
Which of the following was NOT a source of the Byzantine Empire's decline?
A) Warfare with rival empire(s)
B) Increased taxation of subjects
C) Sectarian differences within Christianity
D) Incompatibility of Christianity with Zoroastrianism - Answers -✔✔D) Incompatibility
of Christianity with Zoroastrianism
Why does Muhammad's wife Khadijah hold an honored place in Islam?
A) She helped Muhammad to write the Quran
B) She received revelations from God
C) She was the first convert to Islam after Muhammad
D) She is used an example of an ideal Muslim in the first Sura of the Quran - Answers -
✔✔C) She was the first convert to Islam after Muhammad
What does the first year of the Muslim calendar (622 CE) mark?
A) The hijrah: the migration of Muslims from Mecca to Medina
B) The year Muhammad first received revelations from God
,C) The year Muhammad and his followers conquered Mecca and proclaimed the Ka'ba
a sacred shrine of God
D) The year of Muhammad's birth - Answers -✔✔A) The hijrah: the migration of
Muslims from Mecca to Medina
Which of the following was NOT a caliph of the Abbasid Empire?
A) al-Mansur
B) Harun al-Rashid
C) Mu'awiyah
D) al-Ma'mun - Answers -✔✔C) Mu'awiyah
Which of the following best describes a caliph?
A) The religious and political leader of the Islamic community
B) The rightful heir to Muhammad Ali
C) The religious and political leader of a nomadic tribe
D) The wisest and most knowledgeable man within a community. - Answers -✔✔A)
The religious and political leader of the Islamic community
Which of the following most accurately describes the Rashidun?
A) The pre-Islamic inhabitants of the Hijaz
B) Abu Bakr and his three successors, who are known as the rightly guided caliphs
C) The martyrs of the Arab conquests of the seventh century
D) Members of monotheistic religions (peoples of the book) - Answers -✔✔B) Abu Bakr
and his three successors, who are known as the rightly guided caliphs
The period of the Arab conquests and the building of an Islamic empire began with
which
caliph?
A) Abu Bakr (632-634)
B) Umar (634-644)
,C) Uthman (644-656)
D) Ali (656-661) - Answers -✔✔B) Umar (634-644)
Within 100 years of Muhammad's death, Arab forces had reached all of the following
EXCEPT
A) India
B) Spain
C) Tunisia
D) the Balkans - Answers -✔✔D) the Balkans
How did the Abbasid Empire address the issue of political authority?
A) Political authority was placed into the hands of an absolute monarch
B) Political authority rested entirely with a religious leader
C) Autonomous religious groups within the empire held complete political authority
D) The Abbasid Empire embraced a secular king - Answers -✔✔A) Political authority
was placed into the hands of an absolute monarch
Before the birth of Islam, the settled lands of the Middle East were ruled by two imperial
states: the Roman-Byzantine Empire and the __________ .
A) Abbasid Empire
B) Sasanian Empire
C) Umayyad Empire
D) Seljuk Empire - Answers -✔✔B) Sasanian Empire
Which of the following was characteristic of pre-Islamic society in the Arabian
Peninsula?
A) Codified legal systems
B) Hierarchical state structures
C) Kin-based political systems
, D) Centralized armies - Answers -✔✔C) Kin-based political systems
Which of the following is NOT a reason why Ali is such a significant figure in Islam?
A) He was Muhammad's cousin
B) He was the husband of Muhammad's daughter Fatima
C) He represented a broad coalition of interests calling for greater equality among all
Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab
D) He was the uncontested successor to the caliphate - Answers -✔✔D) He was the
uncontested successor to the caliphate
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the Umayyad dynasty?
A) It borrowed administratively from the Byzantines
B) It sought the continued expansion of Islam
C) It moved the capital from Mecca to Constantinople
D) It accrued vast levels of wealth from conquests - Answers -✔✔C) It moved the
capital from Mecca to Constantinople
What was most stunning about the Arab conquests of the 600s?
A) The number of men involved in these conquests
B) The level of sophistication in the tactics used in the conquests
C) The durability of these conquests
D) The lengthy amount of time it took for these conquests to be completed - Answers -
✔✔C) The durability of these conquests
1. Muhammad's role as Prophet of Islam is believed to begin at birth.
A)True
B)False - Answers -✔✔A) True
The office of the caliphate remained with the Abbasids from 750 to 1258.
A) True
Solutions New Update (Verified A+ Pass)
Which of the following enabled empires (such as the Acheminid Empire) to dominate
increasingly extensive territories?
A) Improvements in agriculture and military technology
B) Improvements in transportation and communication
C) The development of social and administrative organizations
D) All of the answers are correct - Answers -✔✔D) All of the answers are correct
Which of the following was NOT a source of the Byzantine Empire's decline?
A) Warfare with rival empire(s)
B) Increased taxation of subjects
C) Sectarian differences within Christianity
D) Incompatibility of Christianity with Zoroastrianism - Answers -✔✔D) Incompatibility
of Christianity with Zoroastrianism
Why does Muhammad's wife Khadijah hold an honored place in Islam?
A) She helped Muhammad to write the Quran
B) She received revelations from God
C) She was the first convert to Islam after Muhammad
D) She is used an example of an ideal Muslim in the first Sura of the Quran - Answers -
✔✔C) She was the first convert to Islam after Muhammad
What does the first year of the Muslim calendar (622 CE) mark?
A) The hijrah: the migration of Muslims from Mecca to Medina
B) The year Muhammad first received revelations from God
,C) The year Muhammad and his followers conquered Mecca and proclaimed the Ka'ba
a sacred shrine of God
D) The year of Muhammad's birth - Answers -✔✔A) The hijrah: the migration of
Muslims from Mecca to Medina
Which of the following was NOT a caliph of the Abbasid Empire?
A) al-Mansur
B) Harun al-Rashid
C) Mu'awiyah
D) al-Ma'mun - Answers -✔✔C) Mu'awiyah
Which of the following best describes a caliph?
A) The religious and political leader of the Islamic community
B) The rightful heir to Muhammad Ali
C) The religious and political leader of a nomadic tribe
D) The wisest and most knowledgeable man within a community. - Answers -✔✔A)
The religious and political leader of the Islamic community
Which of the following most accurately describes the Rashidun?
A) The pre-Islamic inhabitants of the Hijaz
B) Abu Bakr and his three successors, who are known as the rightly guided caliphs
C) The martyrs of the Arab conquests of the seventh century
D) Members of monotheistic religions (peoples of the book) - Answers -✔✔B) Abu Bakr
and his three successors, who are known as the rightly guided caliphs
The period of the Arab conquests and the building of an Islamic empire began with
which
caliph?
A) Abu Bakr (632-634)
B) Umar (634-644)
,C) Uthman (644-656)
D) Ali (656-661) - Answers -✔✔B) Umar (634-644)
Within 100 years of Muhammad's death, Arab forces had reached all of the following
EXCEPT
A) India
B) Spain
C) Tunisia
D) the Balkans - Answers -✔✔D) the Balkans
How did the Abbasid Empire address the issue of political authority?
A) Political authority was placed into the hands of an absolute monarch
B) Political authority rested entirely with a religious leader
C) Autonomous religious groups within the empire held complete political authority
D) The Abbasid Empire embraced a secular king - Answers -✔✔A) Political authority
was placed into the hands of an absolute monarch
Before the birth of Islam, the settled lands of the Middle East were ruled by two imperial
states: the Roman-Byzantine Empire and the __________ .
A) Abbasid Empire
B) Sasanian Empire
C) Umayyad Empire
D) Seljuk Empire - Answers -✔✔B) Sasanian Empire
Which of the following was characteristic of pre-Islamic society in the Arabian
Peninsula?
A) Codified legal systems
B) Hierarchical state structures
C) Kin-based political systems
, D) Centralized armies - Answers -✔✔C) Kin-based political systems
Which of the following is NOT a reason why Ali is such a significant figure in Islam?
A) He was Muhammad's cousin
B) He was the husband of Muhammad's daughter Fatima
C) He represented a broad coalition of interests calling for greater equality among all
Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab
D) He was the uncontested successor to the caliphate - Answers -✔✔D) He was the
uncontested successor to the caliphate
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the Umayyad dynasty?
A) It borrowed administratively from the Byzantines
B) It sought the continued expansion of Islam
C) It moved the capital from Mecca to Constantinople
D) It accrued vast levels of wealth from conquests - Answers -✔✔C) It moved the
capital from Mecca to Constantinople
What was most stunning about the Arab conquests of the 600s?
A) The number of men involved in these conquests
B) The level of sophistication in the tactics used in the conquests
C) The durability of these conquests
D) The lengthy amount of time it took for these conquests to be completed - Answers -
✔✔C) The durability of these conquests
1. Muhammad's role as Prophet of Islam is believed to begin at birth.
A)True
B)False - Answers -✔✔A) True
The office of the caliphate remained with the Abbasids from 750 to 1258.
A) True
