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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

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

3. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1812.

4. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Revision."
(b) "Subjectivism."
(c) "Advancement."
(d) "Continuity."

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

6. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) April 25, 1901.
(b) September 2, 1908.
(c) June 13, 1910.
(d) March 12, 1919.

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

8. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Andrew Rothstein.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Joseph McCarthy.

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

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

11. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1760.
(d) 1740.

12. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

13. 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) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Lord Salisbury.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

3. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

4. 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)?

5. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

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