Quiz  /  Religion, Violence, and War Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which Muslim leader captured Jerusalem and stalemated the efforts of the Third Crusade?

  • Shāmil
  • Saladin
  • Murad I
  • Ibn Tūmart

  • 2. 
    Which Roman Catholic saint led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War?

  • Joan of Arc
  • Francis of Assissi
  • Thérèse of Lisieux
  • Jude

  • 3. 
    Which archbishop of Canterbury was burned at the stake for heresy in 1556?

  • Bregowine
  • Thomas Cranmer
  • Rowan Williams
  • Frederick Cornwallis

  • 4. 
    Which of these is the most important cause of the Holocaust?

  • Nazi claims for living space
  • Nazi anti-Semitism
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  • German rearmament

  • 5. 
    Which early Islamic military victory was recorded in the Qurʾān as a sign of divine sanction of the new religion?

  • Battle of Uḥud
  • Battle of the Ditch
  • Battle of Tours
  • Battle of Badr

  • 6. 
    Which religious festival celebrates the military victory of Judas Maccabeus over Antiochus IV Epiphanes?

  • Hanukkah
  • Shavuot
  • Purim
  • Passover

  • 7. 
    Which Christian theologian wrote an influential defense of Christianity after the sack of Rome in 410?

  • St. Augustine of Hippo
  • Mark the Hermit
  • Origen
  • St. Ambrose

  • 8. 
    Which French king brought about the destruction of the Christian military order the Knights Templars?

  • Pippin III
  • Philip IV
  • Lothar I
  • Napoleon III

  • 9. 
    Which battle did Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, win by digging a trench around Medina?

  • Battle of Medina
  • Battle of Badr
  • Battle of the Ditch
  • Battle of Grunwald

  • 10. 
    What conspiracy to blow up Parliament strengthened anti-Catholic feelings in England?

  • Popish Plot
  • July Plot
  • Casket Letters
  • Gunpowder Plot

  • 11. 
    Which Mamluk sultan, noted for his military campaigns against the Crusaders, died after being poisoned when he drank from a cup intended for someone else?

  • Al-Ḥākim
  • Aybak
  • Baybars I
  • Saladin
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