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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the American Oriental Society founded?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1823.

2. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Homer.
(d) Rimbau.

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

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

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

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

7. 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) 65%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 85%.

8. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) An Occidentalist.
(b) A biologist.
(c) A philologist.
(d) An epidemiologist.

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

10. 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) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Julius Mohl.

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

12. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) A revised idea.
(b) An unaccepted idea.
(c) An accepted idea.
(d) A new idea.

13. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1571.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1592.
(d) 1601.

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

15. 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) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

2. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

3. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?

4. 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)?

5. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

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