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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Ernest Renan born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1802.

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

4. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Lord Salisbury.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

6. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Athena.
(d) Agave.

7. When did Gustave Flouberd die?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1860.

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

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

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

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

12. When was Louis Lambert published?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1832.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?

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

3. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

4. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?

5. Silvestre de Sacy's family were adherents to what Catholic theological movement?

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