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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1789.

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

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

4. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1568-1599.
(b) 1601-1635.
(c) 1638-1639.
(d) 1702-1715.

5. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1789.

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

7. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Agave.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Zeus.

8. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?
(a) 65.
(b) 75.
(c) 59.
(d) 78.

9. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1712.

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

11. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

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

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

15. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1823.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?

2. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

3. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

4. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

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

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