Question # 1

Spanish gardens have preserved to this day a _________ character

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Moorish

British

French

Dutch

Two years before his death in 788 Abd-al-Rahman founded the great __________ of Cordova

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church

mosque

tomb

palace

Cordova acquired international fame and inspired awe and ............. in the hearts of travellers.

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Abomination

Hatred

Irritation

Admiration

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

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Admonishes

Reassurances

Threats

Warnings

The accession of the Abbasids was signalizedby their action against the Umayyads.

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Made prominent

Made important

Made meaningful

Made effective

Nevers before was Cordova so prosperous, Andalusia so rich and the state so.

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Weak

Fourteen

Four

Forty

The royal........... was Al zehra.

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Mosque

Bath

Palace

City

Accession of the Abbasids to the ______ was signalised

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Emirate

Baronage

Caliphate

Parsonage

Dutch scholar Dozy declared that nearly everyone could __________ and write

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sing

read

cook

sew

Abdul Rehman I has aquiline or Features and red hair.

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Like an eagle's

Like a crow's

Like a duck's

Like a pigeon's

When his realm consolidated Abd-al Rahman turned to the arts of __________

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war

peace

piece

pease

Sovereignty in the Moslem world, West or East was_________

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unstable

stabel

permanent

perpetual

In Al -Zahra the caliph surrounded himself with body guard of ................. which numbered 3750

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Slaves

Women

Masons

laborer's

In order to secure the first copy of the "Aghani" , al hakam sent the author a ............ dinars.

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Hundred

Five hundred

Thousand

Million

The library of Cordova housed a library of first magnitude.

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Importance

Volume

Size

Value

Besides the great mosque the capital could already boast a bridge over the river _________

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Danube

Rhine

Guadalquivir

Thames

The Abbasids got engaged in the ruthless extermination of the Umayyads.

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Killing

Removal

Dismissed

Turning out

His reign and that of his two immediate successors mark the __________ of Moslem rule in the west

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lowest

height

depth

degeneration

Al-Hakam, probably the best scholar among Moslem caliphs, personally _________ several of these books

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used

destroyed

sold

tore

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