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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Friedrich Schlegel.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

2. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aeschylus.

3. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

5. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1699.

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

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

8. 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)?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) The Duc de Broglie.

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

10. 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) "Subjectivism."
(d) "Continuity."

11. 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) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(b) "A global participant and power."
(c) "A subordinate class."
(d) "A booming economy."

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

13. 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) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

14. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?
(a) Gerard de Nerval.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?

3. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

4. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

5. Who wrote Candide?

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