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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 invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Friedrich August Wolf.

3. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

4. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

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

6. When was Ernest Renan born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1919.

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

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

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

10. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 30,000 pounds.
(b) 50,000 pounds.
(c) 20,000 pounds.
(d) 100,000 pounds.

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

12. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Homer.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Aeschylus.

13. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?
(a) President de Brosses.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

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

15. 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)?
(a) 1449.
(b) 1312.
(c) 1402.
(d) 1195.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Don Quixote?

2. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

3. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

4. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

5. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

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