This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > History > Class 11 History Chapter 4 The Central Islamic Lands – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 History Chapter 4 The Central Islamic Lands Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why do geographers call Arabia a "crossroads" location? A) It is home to very few cultures, or people. B) Trade routes linking Africa, Asia, and Europe run through it. C) People from many different cultures live there. D) It is where Islam, Christianity, and Judaism started. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trade routes linking Africa, Asia, and Europe run through it. 2. Prophet Mohammed was from A) Jerusalem. B) Arabia. C) Iraq. D) Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arabia. 3. Worship of God involved daily prayers called A) Sawm. B) Zakat. C) Shahada. D) Salat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Salat. 4. What was the Umma? A) A community that believes in one God, bear witness to the existence of God. B) The Islamic tribals who rebelled against the rise of caliphs after the Prophet's death. C) A community of people who were against the traditional Islamic rituals. D) A community of Muslims who worshiped Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A community that believes in one God, bear witness to the existence of God. 5. In terms of importance to Arabian nomads, which concern would you rank first? A) Getting food and water for their animals. B) Finding shelter for themselves. C) Visiting oases frequently. D) Making deals with traders for supplies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Getting food and water for their animals. 6. True or False:Orientalists were university professors in Germany and Netherlands; French and British researchers to serve colonial interests in the Middle East and North Africa A) False. B) True. C) Partly false. D) Partly true. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 7. How many times a day Muslims pray? A) Four times a day. B) Seven times a day. C) Five times a day. D) Three times a day. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Five times a day. 8. A date in the Hijri calendar is followed by the letters ..... A) CE. B) AD. C) AH. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AH. 9. What was the most important difference between Muhammad's teachings and the beliefs of Arabs? A) Muhammad taught that people should make pilgrimages to Kaaba. B) Muhammad taught that there were many gods. C) Muhammad taught that people should be kind to the poor. D) Muhammad taught that there was only one God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muhammad taught that there was only one God. 10. What was the name of the shrine controlled by the tribe of Muhammad A) Medina. B) Mecca. C) Quraysh. D) Kaba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kaba. 11. What is the earliest major work of Islamic architecture? A) The Great Mosque of al-Mutawwakil. B) The Dome of the Rock. C) The Alhambra. D) The Citadel of Aleppo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Dome of the Rock. 12. What do you mean by ' Zakat '? A) A religious tax collected from Muslims. B) Places of worship for the Jews. C) A religious task every Muslim is supposed to do in his/her lifetime. D) Rightful king to the throne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A religious tax collected from Muslims. 13. Who was the first caliph after the death of prophet Muhammad? A) Muawiya. B) Hazrat Ali. C) Uthman. D) Abu Bakr. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abu Bakr. 14. What is significance of Kaba? A) It is a unique cube shaped building, rumoured to have special powers. B) It is the holiest shrine of Islamic World. C) Most sacred place of Muslims. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 15. After Muhammad's death, the title given to Islam's highest leaders was A) Sultan. B) Successor. C) Caliph. D) Emperor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caliph. 16. Which of the following is not an essential part of Islamic belief? A) The belief in sorcery. B) The belief in prophets. C) The belief in the oneness of God. D) The belief in the Day of Judgment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The belief in sorcery. 17. The word jihad means A) To strive or struggle. B) Pilgrimage. C) Fasting. D) Prophecy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To strive or struggle. 18. The term "Islam" means A) Thankfulness. B) Fortitude. C) Peace. D) Submission. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Submission. 19. Community of believers was known as A) Taliban. B) Ummah. C) Group. D) Caliphate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ummah. 20. Who was Khadija? A) The first Abbasid caliph. B) A modern Egyptian woman who took off her headscarf. C) A twentieth-century reformer. D) The first wife of the prophet Muhammad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The first wife of the prophet Muhammad. 21. Prophet Muhammad was from A) India. B) Constantinople. C) Medina. D) Mecca. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mecca. 22. The longest ruling Caliph in Islamic Empire was? A) Ali. B) Abu Bakr. C) Uthman. D) Umar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Umar. 23. Which religion did the Sasanian empire patronize? A) Christanity. B) Judaism. C) Zoroastrianism. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zoroastrianism. 24. He moved his capital to Damascus A) Abd-al-Malik. B) Ali. C) Uthman. D) Muawiya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muawiya. 25. What are semi-historical works, such as biographies? A) Akhbar. B) Tawarikh. C) Hadith. D) Sira. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sira. 26. Mahummad of Ghazni attacked this temple 11 times A) Khujraho. B) Akshardham. C) Somnath. D) Kashi vishwanath temple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Somnath. 27. Before Prophet Muhammad, what was the system of social organisation of Arabs? A) Qabila. B) Tribes. C) Unorganised. D) Both 1 and 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both 1 and 2. 28. Our understanding of the history of the Islamic lands is NOT based on which of the following? A) Sira. B) Hadith. C) Salat. D) Tawarikh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salat. 29. What were the preachings of Islam? A) That there is only one God. B) That everyone is equal in the eyes of God. C) Universal brotherhood and peace among all religions and communities. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 30. What is religion tax collected from Muslims? A) Umma. B) Zakat. C) Jaziya. D) Hizrat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zakat. 31. What does Tawarikh stands for? A) Saying of Prophet Mohammad. B) Eyewitness reports. C) Narrates events in a chronological Order. D) Commentaries on Quran. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrates events in a chronological Order. 32. Who was the third Caliph? A) Ali. B) Abu Bakr. C) Umar. D) Uthman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uthman. 33. The place Palestine was important as- A) It wasnt venue of jesus' crucification. B) It was not the holy land for multiple religion. C) It was the venue of jesus' crucification. D) It was the holy land for multiple religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was the venue of jesus' crucification. 34. Name of the angel that made revelations to Muhammad. A) Arch angel Raphael. B) Arch angel Gabriel. C) Arch angel Ariel. D) Arch angel Michael. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arch angel Gabriel. 35. Where was Mecca located? A) Crossroad of a trade route between Yemen and Syria. B) Present day Palestine. C) Present day Israel. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crossroad of a trade route between Yemen and Syria. 36. Where is Dome of Rock? A) Mecca. B) Persia. C) Jerusalem. D) Samara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jerusalem. 37. Which of the following words mean 'generosity'? A) Qabila. B) Murawwa. C) Azhar. D) Sanam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Murawwa. 38. Who was the third Caliph of the Islamic empire? A) Abu Bakr. B) Uthman. C) Ali. D) Umar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uthman. 39. What is the tax imposed on non Muslims called? A) Hizrat. B) Zakat. C) Jaziya. D) Umma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jaziya. 40. Who wrote Shahnama? A) Firdausi. B) Ibn Sina. C) Muawaiyash. D) Rabia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Firdausi. 41. What does Tawarikh mean? A) Chronicles, listed out in chronological order. B) Semi historical works, such as biographies. C) Saying and doings of the prophet. D) Interpretations of the Quran. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chronicles, listed out in chronological order. 42. What was the name of the powerful tribe that controlled Mecca before Muhammed's time? A) Abbasids. B) Umayyads. C) Fatimids. D) Quraysh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quraysh. 43. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have one thing in common, identify. A) All are known as religion of the book. B) All are polytheistic. C) Each have a unique holy city. D) Each have a prophet, who was son of god. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All are known as religion of the book. 44. The city to which Muslims migrated. A) Medina. B) Kufa. C) Basra. D) Mecca. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medina. 45. Put the first four caliphs in order A) Abu Bakr, Umar Uthman Ali. B) Ali, Uthman, Umar, Abu Bakr. C) Abu Bakr, uthman, Umar, Ali. D) Umar, Abu Bakr, Uthman, Ali. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abu Bakr, Umar Uthman Ali. 46. Under the Abbasid rule A) Arab influence declined, Iranian Culture influence increased. B) Arab culture's importance increased, iranian culture importance decreased. C) Christianity was introduced. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arab influence declined, Iranian Culture influence increased. 47. What term is used for people who follow Islam? A) Muslims. B) Ismailis. C) Khojas. D) Umra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muslims. 48. Term which narrate events in order of time A) Sira. B) Tafsir. C) Tawarikh. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tawarikh. 49. What is the name of tax collected from non believers of Islam A) Zakat. B) Jaziya. C) Zimmi. D) Sharia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jaziya. 50. Who was Muhammad? A) Son of God. B) Another name of Jesus. C) Arch Angel. D) Prophet who taught Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prophet who taught Islam. 51. Mecca was located on the crossroad of a trade route between which 2 countries A) Saudi Arabia and Iran. B) Iraq and Iran. C) Syria and Iran. D) Syria and yemen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syria and yemen. 52. Who was considered the father of New Persian poetry? A) Abu Nuwas. B) Rudaki. C) Umar Khayyam. D) Mahmud of Ghazn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rudaki. 53. Most trustworthy source to understand the core teachings of Mohammad is: A) Twarikh. B) Hadith. C) Akhbarat. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hadith. 54. Which community was found by Muhammad that was bound by the set of believers bound by a common set of religious beliefs. A) Zakats. B) Umma. C) Hijra. D) Muslims. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Umma. 55. The abbasid state became weaker from the 9th century as A) Bhagads control over provinces declining. B) Conflicts between pro Iranian and pro Arab in the economy. C) Conflicts between pro Iranian and pro Arab in the army. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 56. Under which regime was the capital of the empire shifted to Damascus? A) Fatimids. B) Arabs of Khurasan. C) Abbasids. D) Ummayyads. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ummayyads. 57. What was the name of the well-organized movement that brought down the Umayyads? A) Hajj. B) Noria. C) Dawa. D) Makhazin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dawa. 58. What are records of sayings and doings of the prophets? A) Isnad. B) Sira. C) Tafsir. D) Hadith. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hadith. 59. If Fatimids ruled In Egypt, then who ruled in Iran after the breakup of Caliphate? A) Buyids. B) Tulunids. C) Tahirids. D) Samanids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tahirids. 60. How long is a Hijri year? A) 351 days. B) 353 days. C) 352 days. D) 354 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 354 days. Next →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 History Chapter 4 The Central Islamic Lands Quiz 2Class 11 History Chapter 1 From The Beginning Of Time QuizClass 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution QuizClass 11 History Chapter 11 Print Culture And The Modern World QuizClass 11 History Chapter 2 Writing And City Life QuizClass 11 History Chapter 3 An Empire Across Three Continents QuizClass 11 History Chapter 5 The Political And Economic History Of The Early Modern World QuizClass 11 History Chapter 6 Nomadic Empires Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books