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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

2. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Schwab.
(b) Baudilaire.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

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

5. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1731.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1659.

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

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

8. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?
(a) "Epistolism."
(b) "Accumulation."
(c) "Sovereignty."
(d) "Generosity."

9. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Lord Salisbury.

10. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1798.

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

12. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?
(a) 1709-1711.
(b) 1798-1801.
(c) 1698-1702.
(d) 1759-1765.

13. 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?
(a) 95%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 65%.

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

15. When was Louis Lambert published?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

2. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?

3. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

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)?

5. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?

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