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Unit 3 – Byzantine and Islamic Civilizations
CFA #3 8th Grade World History
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
______ 1. Who is the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church today?
a. The Pope
b. The Patriarchs
c. The Bishops
______ 2. Why did the use of icons anger iconoclasts?
a. They believed using icons was like worshipping objects
b. They believed using icons led to the Great Schism
c. They believed using icons taught people about God
______ 3. How did the Byzantine librarians preserve Greek and Roman culture?
a. They copied manuscripts of Greece and Rome
b. They edited ideas in Greek and Roman manuscripts
c. They rewrote Greek and Roman manuscripts to reflect Byzantine ideas
______ 4. Constantinople’s location on the Bosporus Strait made it an ideal location
for _____.
a. agriculture and fishing
b. tourism and trade
c. trade and defense
______ 5. Bishops pointed to the tradition of _____ as the source of their authority.
a. The Patriarchs
b. Apostolic Succession
c. The Popes
______ 6. After the Great Schism, which church followed the Western tradition of
Christianity?
a. The Roman Catholic Church
b. The Greek Orthodox Church
c. The Byzantine Church
______ 7. How does the legacy of Cyril and Methodius live on in Eastern Europe
today?
a. Many Eastern Europeans use the Cyrillic alphabet
b. Many Eastern Europeans use the Greek alphabet
c. Many Eastern Europeans use the Latin alphabet
______ 8. Islam began in Arabia, a land known for the _____.
a. heavy rains that blow in from surrounding seas
b. its relatively small size for a peninsula
c. harshness of its dry, desert landscape
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______ 9. Muslims believe which of the following?
a. Muhammad was the only prophet of God
b. Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad were all prophets
c. Muslims, Christians, and Jews all worship different gods
______ 10.
a.
b.
c.
Which of the following is one of the five pillars of Islam?
Muslims must pray five times a day while facing Mecca
Muslims must fast between daybreak and sunset once a month
Muslims must make a pilgrimage to Mecca once a year
______ 11.
a.
b.
c.
Muslims are forbidden to gamble or drink alcohol by the _____.
Quran
Sharia
Sunnah
______ 12. Which of the following was the most powerful non-Arab Muslim Empire
that arose in the Middle East?
a. Abbasid
b. Ottoman
c. Umayyad
______ 13. Which of the following explains the attitude toward reading and writing
in Muslim culture?
a. Arabs had a strong tradition of oral story telling but were not interested
in reading and writing
b. People studied literature so they could pass exams for civil service
c. People valued literacy because they wanted to be able to read the Quran
______ 14. Muslims scholars introduced which of the following concepts to
Europeans?
a. Arabic numerals
b. astronomy
c. medicine
______ 15. Why did Muhammad move from Mecca to the city of Medina?
a. Muhammad already established a Muslim community in Mecca and
wanted to spread his teachings
b. He was not free to preach Islam in Mecca but was able to do so in Medina
c. He did not want to interfere with existing worship at the Kabaa in Mecca
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Key
1. B (8.4.8A)
2. A (8.4.8B)
3. A (8.4.8B)
4. C (8.4.8C)
5. B (8.4.8A)
6. A (8.4.8D)
7. A (8.4.8C)
8. C (8.4.8C)
9. B (8.4.8C)
10. A (8.4.8C)
11. B (8.48C)
12. B (8.4.8D)
13. C (8.4.8A)
14. A (8.4.8A)
15. B (8.4.8B)