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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Continuity."
(b) "Subjectivism."
(c) "Revision."
(d) "Advancement."

2. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Lord Salisbury.

3. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1876.

4. When was the American Oriental Society founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1823.

5. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Honore de Balzac.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

2. When did the French occupy Algiers?

3. When did the Hayter Report appear?

4. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

5. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is noted about Henry Kissinger's views on public policy in the book?

2. Who was Ferdinand de Lesseps and how did he contribute to Orientalism?

3. What are the two traits that the author describes Orientalism carrying forward from the outset in Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis?

4. How did perceptions of the Orient differ between the Renaissance and the eighteenth century?

5. When was the height of British colonialism? What areas were occupied by Britain?

6. What is described in the quote from Edward William Lane's An Accound of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians that opens Chapter 2?

7. Who was Sir William Jones and what was his contribution to Orientalism?

8. Who are Bouvard and Pecuchet?

9. How does the author define Orientalism?

10. Why was Egypt considered a valuable land to rule over to the Europeans?

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