Episode 114 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 114: The Life of Muhammad, Part 1. See what you remember about Muhammad’s early life and patrilineage in the city of Mecca by clicking START, below!
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One night in 621, Muhammad took a visionary journey to heaven, stopping along the way in the city of:
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These short prophetic narratives about things Muhammad said and did numbered in the tens of thousands by the 800s.
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Some of the poorer Muslims escaped Mecca in the 610s, finding refuge in what is today:
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A miracle story survives in the early biographies in which Muhammad is able to produce unlimited food and drink for a number of:
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Muhammad’s mother was named:
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How old was Muhammad when he had his first revelation?
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Muhammad’s friend, the future first caliph, with whom he hid in a cave while Meccan authorities were pursuing the two men:
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The first word of the Qur’an, in English translation, is:
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Muhammad was born in about:
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In addition to God, with whom did Muhammad speak in heaven during his night journey?
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In prophetic biography and hadiths, the “isnad” is best translated as:
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This biblical figure is considered the patriarch of many northern and western Arabs:
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Muhammad’s first wife:
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Muhammad’s tribe, and the tribe that controlled many Meccan industries during his life, was the:
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Muhammad’s uncle who helped bring him up after his parents and grandfather passed away:
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The Kaaba courtyard today contains the Kaaba itself, the Maqam Ibrahim, or stone with Abraham’s footprints, and what other ancient artifact of Biblical times?
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Within Muhammad’s tribe, of which of the following clans was he a member?
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Muhammad’s grandfather was named:
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The life of Muhammad’s father Abdullah, in a dramatic narrative in the early biographies, is judged as worth that of:
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Before becoming a prophet, Muhammad mainly worked as:
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