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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
(a) Nobility, certainty, revision, and expansion.
(b) Empathy, education, information, and expression.
(c) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.
(d) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.

2. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

3. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "A global participant and power."
(b) "A booming economy."
(c) "A subordinate class."
(d) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."

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

5. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Astute.
(c) Quixotic.
(d) Articulate.

6. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?
(a) 65.
(b) 59.
(c) 78.
(d) 75.

7. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1802.

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

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

10. 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) Zeus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Agave.
(d) Agamemnon.

11. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1875.

12. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1709.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1798.

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

14. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

15. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?

2. Who wrote Don Quixote?

3. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?

4. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?

5. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

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