Question # 1

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 older boy (Ubdul Rehman)gained the opposite bank.

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Found

Reached

Obtained

Touched

Al-Hakam, Abd-al-Rahman's successor, was himself a ___________ and patronized learning

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warrior

builder

painter

scholar

Ubdul Rehman barely escaped assassination (political murder) in North Africa.

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Injury

Bodily harm

Destruction

Political murder

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

Abd al Rehman, afoot, friendless and penniless made his way to ............ and ound one friend there.

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Indonesia

Palestine

Samarkand

Lahore

Cordova took its place as the most ___________ city in Europe

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cultured

spacious

populated

filthy

The mosque of Cordova was transformed into a cathedral in 1236.

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Improved

Reformed

Changed

Reconstructed

The Umayyad dynasty in Damascus was overthrown by the ______ family

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Mamluk

Mughal

Saljoq

Abbasid

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

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773

873

973

1073

He was in a Bedouin camp on the left bank of the........... River one day.

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Euphrates

Indus

Tigris

Nile

He was in a Bedouin camp on the left bank of the ______ River one day

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Euphrates

Tigris

Indus

Nile

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

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Abbasid

Syrian

Persian

Turks

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

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Made prominent

Made important

Made meaningful

Made effective

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

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Danube

Rhine

Guadalquivir

Thames

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

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Old

Invalid

Young

Infant

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

Dutch scholar Dozy declared that nearly everyone could __________ and write

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sing

read

cook

sew

Caliph Abd-al-Rahman's court was one of the most glorious in all _________

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Europe

Asia

Africa

Australia

The royal revenue amounted to 624500 __________

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rupees

dollars

pounds

dinars

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