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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
(a) Topos.
(b) Idiosyncrasy.
(c) Vernacular.
(d) Grate.

2. What term refers to Islamic mysticism or the inward dimension of Islam?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Ankism.
(c) Sufism.
(d) Robism.

3. Who wrote an article for Harper's magazine stating that "Arabs are basically murderers and that violence and deceit are carried in the Arab genes" (287)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Emmett Tyrrell.
(d) Julius Mohl.

4. What term refers to a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and non-verbal communication?
(a) Epistological.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Philology.

5. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?
(a) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(b) Sir William Jones.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

6. Who wrote The Legacy of Islam?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Eduard Sachau.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Sir Hamilton Gibb.

7. When was Princeton's department of Near Eastern Studies founded?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1800.

8. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Edward Gibbon.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henri Baudet.

9. Who wrote the book Voyageurs d'Orient?
(a) Henri Bordeaux.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

10. When did the painter Ludovic Lepic comment "L'Orient est mort au Caire" (170)?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1915.

11. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) John Westlake.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

12. Over what period of time was Leopold von Ranke's Weltgeschichte published?
(a) 1862-1865.
(b) 1821-1825.
(c) 1881-1888.
(d) 1900-1905.

13. Who authored Didascalicon?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) St. Victor.

14. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1865.

15. When was the National Defense Education Act established that linked the Social Science Research Council and Middle Eastern Studies?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1958.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the text refers to a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something?

2. The course guide for Columbia College undergraduate in what year was said to stated that every other word in the language had to do with violence (287)?

3. Who wrote and published Islam and Capitalism in 1966?

4. Who is the author of Muhammedanisches Recht?

5. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?

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