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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1948.

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

4. 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) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. 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)?
(a) Baudilaire.
(b) Schwab.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Michelet.

6. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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

8. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall.

9. 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.

10. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?
(a) Honore de Balzac.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Henri Baudet.

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

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

13. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?
(a) 1798-1801.
(b) 1698-1702.
(c) 1709-1711.
(d) 1759-1765.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

2. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?

3. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?

4. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

5. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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