Question # 1

Among the very few who ______ was a youth of twenty Abd-ul-Rehman

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Was killed

Was banished

Escaped

Was imprisoned

To a lonely __________ tree in his garden said to be the first imported from Syria, he addressed some tender verses of his own composition

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peach

plum

palm

banana

Spain had thus been the first province to shake............ the authority of the recognized caliph in Islam.

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on

of

off

for

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

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Church

Mosque

Palace

Tomb

In Al -Zahra the caliph surrounded himself with body guard of ................. which numbered 3750

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Slaves

Women

Masons

laborer's

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

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Injury

Bodily harm

Destruction

Political murder

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

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ten

Forty four

Five

Twenty two

To his villa he brought water and introduced _________ plants such as peaches and pemegranates

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exorcist

erratic

systematic

exotic

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

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Used

Sold

Destroyed

Tore

The Mosque of Cordova was.......................... and enlarged by is successors.

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Completed

Curtailed

Minimized

Shortened

The royal revenue amounted to 624500 __________

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rupees

dollars

pounds

dinars

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

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war

peace

piece

pease

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

Tigris

Indus

Nile

Cordova yielded in magnificence only to _________ and Contantionople

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London

Paris

Berlin

Baghdad

al Hakam, Abd al Rahman's successor, was himself a................ and patronized learning.

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Warrior

Builder

Scholar

Painter

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

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

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

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weak

defeated

triumphant

crippled

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