Question # 1

The royal _________ was Al-Zahra

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mosque

bath

palace

city

Al-Hakam was a lover of _________

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horses

buildings

books

mosques

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

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abomination

hatred

irritation

admiration

Cordova yielded in magnificence only to Baghdad and Constantinople.

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Was after

Was inferior

Stood worse

Gave way

Cordova took its place as the most ___________ city in Europe

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cultured

spacious

populated

filthy

Abd-al-Rehman, afoot, friendless and penniless made his way to ______ and found one friend there

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Indonesia

Palestine

Lahore

Samarkand

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

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Killing

Removal

Dismissed

Turning out

Al-Hakam,was a lover of..............

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Horses

Buildings

Books

Mosques

He erected for himself a palace and garden outside __________ in imitation of the palace built in Syria

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Cordova

Gharnata

Alhambra

Ceuta

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

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weak

defeated

triumphant

crippled

Abdul Rehman listen to their reassurances.

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Plans

Promisses

Intensions

Schemes

He heededthe reassurances shouted from the bank of the Euphrates River.

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Heart

Listened to

Acknowledged

Paid extension to

In the south of Spain , were stationed....................troops who accepted him as leader.

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Abbasid

Syrian

Persian

Turks

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

10000 workmen with 1500 beasts of burden laboured on Al-Zahara for a ________ of years

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dozen

score

century

millennium

The library of Cordova housed a library of first magnitude.

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Importance

Volume

Size

Value

The writer of the essay The Jewel of the World is

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Philp K. Hitti

Jafferson

Darrel Barnard

Jerome K. Jerome

Hitti talked about the accession of the Abbasids to the calipahte.

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Entering on

Passage of

Movement of

Approach of

He finally reached ______ five years later

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Ceuta

Beirut

Khartum

Alexandria

In Spain, he intiatedan intellectual movement (of ideas and studies)

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Began

Introduced

Established

Developed or promoted

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

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Church

Mosque

Palace

Tomb

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