| 1 |
Abdul Rehman I was youth of exceptional nerve and ability. |
- A. Special
- B. Unusual
- C. Uncommon
- D. High-class
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| 2 |
His reign and that of his two immediate successors mark the __________ of Moslem rule in the west |
- A. lowest
- B. height
- C. depth
- D. degeneration
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| 3 |
The books thus gathered numbered 400,000, their tidies filling a catalogue of......................... volumes. |
- A. ten
- B. Forty four
- C. Five
- D. Twenty two
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| 4 |
It took Ubdul Rehman some years more to bring all of spain to <u>subjection</u>, but he persisted. |
- A. Forced controlled
- B. Obedience
- C. Dependience
- D. Submission
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| 5 |
Abdul Rehman I has aquiline or Features and red hair. |
- A. Like an eagle's
- B. Like a crow's
- C. Like a duck's
- D. Like a pigeon's
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| 6 |
He <u>heeded</u>the reassurances shouted from the bank of the Euphrates River. |
- A. Heart
- B. Listened to
- C. Acknowledged
- D. Paid extension to
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| 7 |
The Abbasids got engaged in the <u>ruthless</u> extermination of the Umayyads. |
- A. Uncontrolled
- B. Direct
- C. Cruel
- D. Continous
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| 8 |
In order to secure the first copy of the "Aghani" al-Hakam sent the author a _________ dinars |
- A. hundred
- B. five hundred
- C. thousand
- D. million
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| 9 |
With his ______ year old brother, Abd-al-Rahman dashed into the river |
- A. Nine
- B. Eleven
- C. Seven
- D. Thirteen
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| 10 |
In 750 the Ummayyed <u>dynasty</u> was overthrown by the Abbasid family. |
- A. Set or rules
- B. Family lines of rules
- C. Set of kings
- D. Series of kings
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