Question # 1

He was a grandson of the ______ caliph of Damascus

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Fifth

Seventh

Ninth

Tenth

His maternal uncles were Berbers from the district of North ______

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Carolina

Europe

Africa

Australia

The books thus gathered numbered 400,000, their tidies filling a catalogue of......................... volumes.

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ten

Forty four

Five

Twenty two

The fame of the Moslem capital penetrated distant Germany where a Saxon nun styled it the __________ of the world

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pearl

stone

jewel

ruby

The older boy (Ubdul Rehman)gained the opposite bank.

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Found

Reached

Obtained

Touched

Cordova yielded in magnificence only to _________ and Contantionople

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London

Paris

Berlin

Baghdad

The capital boasted some __________ thousand weavers and flourishing leather industry

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five

thirteen

one

hundren

The tired Abd al Rahman was a ......................... man when he took office.

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Old

Invalid

Young

Infant

All this when in Christian __________ only the rudiments of learning were known

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Asia

Africa

America

Europe

Spanish gardens have preserved to this day a _________ character

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Moorish

British

French

Dutch

In 750 the Ummayyed dynasty was overthrown by the Abbasid family.

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Set or rules

Family lines of rules

Set of kings

Series of kings

Abdul Rehman I was youth of exceptional nerve and ability.

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Special

Unusual

Uncommon

High-class

10000 workmen with 1500 beasts of burden labored on Al Zahara for a ..................... of years.

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Dozen

Score

Century

Millennium

Two yeas before his death in 788 Abd al Rahman founded the great ........... of cordova.

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Church

Mosque

Palace

Tomb

Never before was Cordova so prosperous, Andalusia so rich and the state to _________

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weak

defeated

triumphant

crippled

Spain had thus been the first province to shake............ the authority of the recognized caliph in Islam.

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on

of

off

for

In ......................... he discontinued the Friday sermon, hitherto delivered in the name of the Abbasid Caliph

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773

873

973

1073

He finally reached............ five years later.

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Ceuta

Khartum

Beirut

Alexandria

All this when in Christian …. only the rudiments of learning were known.

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Asia

Africa

America

Europe

His brother heeded the ............. shouted rom the bank that he would be unharmed if he returned.

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Admonishes

Reassurances

Threats

Warnings

In more than one sense he initiated the................... movement.

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Instruction

Intellectual

Structural

Fluctual

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