Orientalism Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Agave.
(b) Athena.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Cassandra.

2. When was Ernest Renan born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1823.

3. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Homer.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Cervantes.
(d) Rimbau.

4. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Friedrich August Wolf.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

6. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Andrew Rothstein.
(b) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

7. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Subordinate.
(c) Heritage.
(d) Empathy.

8. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1899.

9. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1571.
(c) 1592.
(d) 1601.

10. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

11. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1848.

12. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

13. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1789.

14. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?
(a) 1693.
(b) 1757.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1789.

15. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1789.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?

2. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?

3. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

4. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

5. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

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