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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who coined the phrase "les bourgeois conquerants"?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Charles Moraze.

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

4. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Linguology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Epidemiology.
(d) Philology.

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

6. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Oliver Goldsmith.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

7. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) September, 1908.
(b) April, 1901.
(c) January, 1908.
(d) March, 1919.

8. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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

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

11. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1823.

12. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 559-500 BC.
(b) 900-800 BC.
(c) 898-760 BC.
(d) 760-710 BC.

13. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?
(a) "Philological scholars."
(b) "Anthropologists."
(c) "Philanthropists."
(d) "Biblical scholars."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

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

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

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

5. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

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