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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

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

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

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

6. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1902.

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

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

9. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?
(a) "A positive doctrine."
(b) "An anthropological endeavor."
(c) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(d) "A negative doctrine."

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

11. 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) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

12. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?
(a) 1698.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1823.

13. 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) Nietzsche.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Schwab.
(d) Baudilaire.

14. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1804.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

2. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

3. When was L'Avenir de la Science published?

4. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?

5. 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)?

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