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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1859.

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

3. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(d) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.

4. 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)?
(a) Madame Bovary.
(b) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.
(c) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(d) Bouvard et Pecuchet.

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

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

7. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Agave.
(d) Dionysus.

8. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1649.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1902.

9. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Johann Gottfried Herders.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

10. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?
(a) M. H. Abrams.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

11. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?
(a) George Sale.
(b) Charles Wilkins.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Edward William Lane.

12. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?
(a) 1655.
(b) 1496.
(c) 1708.
(d) 1719.

13. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Plato.
(b) Homer.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Socrates.

14. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?
(a) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(b) "A positive doctrine."
(c) "An anthropological endeavor."
(d) "A negative doctrine."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?

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

3. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?

4. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

5. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

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