Question # 1

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

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Danube

Rhine

Guadalquivir

Thames

The Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad appointed a governor of sapin to _______ his rule

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Contact

Accept

Context

Contest

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 books thus gathered numbered 400,000, their tidies filling a catalogue of......................... volumes.

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ten

Forty four

Five

Twenty two

Thanks to Allah for having placed the ______ between us and such a foe

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Rock

Wall

Sea

Forest

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

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Admonishes

threats

Reassurances

Warnings

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

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Slowly

Cleverly

Hardly

Narrowly

Thanks to Allah for having placed the................. between us

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Rock

Wall

Sea

Frorest

The fame of the Moslem capital penetrated distant Germany where a Saxon nun styled it the __________ of the world

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pearl

stone

jewel

ruby

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

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Abomination

Hatred

Irritation

Admiration

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

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Asia

Africa

America

Europe

In more than one sense he initiated the................... movement.

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Instruction

Intellectual

Structural

Fluctual

With his ______ year old brother, Abd-al-Rahman dashed into the river

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Nine

Eleven

Seven

Thirteen

Cordova yielded in magnificence only to..................... and constantinople

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London

Paris

Baghdad

Berlin

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

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used

destroyed

sold

tore

The Umayyad dynasty in Damascus was overthrown by the ______ family

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Mamluk

Mughal

Saljoq

Abbasid

The writer of the essay The Jewel of the World is

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Philp K. Hitti

Jafferson

Darrel Barnard

Jerome K. Jerome

with its forest of stately........................ and its spacious outer court, it has survived to the present day.

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Rooms

Roots

Floors

Columns

Spanish gardens have preserved to this day a........... character.

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Moorish

French

British

Dutch

The capital boasted some __________ thousand weavers and flourishing leather industry

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five

thirteen

one

hundren

The royal revenue amounted to 624500 __________

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rupees

dollars

pounds

dinars

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