Q 01/05

Who is the only woman the Quran mentions by name?

A) Eve

B) Mary

C) Khadija

D) Fatima

Answer · why

B) Mary

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the only woman the Quran names, and its nineteenth chapter bears her name; Eve appears in the text only as Adam's wife, ...

Q 02/05

Ramadan, the month of fasting, is which month of the Islamic calendar?

A) First

B) Seventh

C) Ninth

D) Twelfth

Answer · why

C) Ninth

Ninth: the Islamic year is shorter than the 365-day year, so Ramadan falls a little earlier each year and passes through every season in a cycle of ab...

Q 03/05

Mecca, home of the Kaaba, lies in which region of western Saudi Arabia?

A) Hejaz

B) Najd

C) Asir

D) Jizan

Answer · why

A) Hejaz

Hejaz, the Red Sea strip around Mecca, was briefly a kingdom of its own: the sharif of Mecca proclaimed himself its king in 1916, and Ibn Saud conquer...

Q 04/05

How many times a day are Muslims required to pray?

A) Two

B) Five

C) Ten

D) Twenty

Answer · why

B) Five

Five: tradition holds that fifty daily prayers were first commanded during Muhammad's Night Journey, and that the number was cut to five after Moses u...

Q 05/05

Eid al-Adha falls on the tenth day of which Islamic month?

A) Rabi al-Awwal

B) Ramadan

C) Dhu al-Qadah

D) Dhu al-Hijjah

Answer · why

D) Dhu al-Hijjah

Dhu al-Hijjah means 'the month of the pilgrimage': the Hajj takes place in its second week, and the feast marks the culmination of the pilgrimage rite...