Question # 1

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

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Used

Sold

Destroyed

Tore

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

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warrior

builder

painter

scholar

The books thus gathered numbered 400,000, their titles filling a catalogue of ________ volumes

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ten

forty four

twenty two

five

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

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Asia

Africa

America

Europe

With his.............year old brother, Abd al Rahman dashed in to the river.

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Nine

Eleven

Seven

Thirteen

Cordova yielded in magnificence only to Baghdad and Constantinople.

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Was after

Was inferior

Stood worse

Gave way

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

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Admonishes

Reassurances

Threats

Warnings

To his villa, he brought water and introduced................ plants such as peaches and pomegranates.

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Exocist

Erratic

Exotic

Systematic

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

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weak

defeated

triumphant

crippled

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

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church

mosque

tomb

palace

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

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Entering on

Passage of

Movement of

Approach of

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

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

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Horses

Buildings

Books

Mosques

Abd al Rehman developed a well disciplined, highly trained army of........... or more Berbers.

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20,000

25,000

40,000

30,000

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

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war

peace

piece

pease

The third Abd-al-Rahman was a ___________ man when he took office

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old

invalid

infant

young

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

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Old

Invalid

Young

Infant

The Umayyad dynasty in Damascus was overthrown by the ............ family

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Mamulk

Mughal

Abbasid

Saljoq

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

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Injury

Bodily harm

Destruction

Political murder

The Mosque of Cordova was ________ and enlarged by his successors

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completed

curtailed

minimised

shortened

And he left a statement, we are told, which said that he had known only ________ days of happiness

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fifty

fourteen

forty

four

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