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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 20,000 pounds.
(b) 100,000 pounds.
(c) 50,000 pounds.
(d) 30,000 pounds.

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

3. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?
(a) 1402.
(b) 1312.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1449.

4. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Charles Wilkins.
(c) Edward William Lane.
(d) M. H. Abrams.

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

6. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
(a) Nobility, certainty, revision, and expansion.
(b) Empathy, education, information, and expression.
(c) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.
(d) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.

7. When was L'Avenir de la Science published?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1899.

8. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Gerard de Nerval.

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

10. 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) Zeus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Dionysus.

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

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

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

14. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Julius Mohl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Don Quixote?

2. 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)?

3. When was Louis Lambert published?

4. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?

5. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

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