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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) T. E. Lawrence.
(d) E. M. Forster.

2. Where was Sir Hamilton Gibb born?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Germany.

3. When does the author describe the political and military heyday of Islam, when it dominated both East and West?
(a) From the eighth century to the tenth century.
(b) From the third century to the fifteenth century.
(c) From the sixth century to the eighth century.
(d) From the eighth century to the sixteenth century.

4. Of whom did Sir Hamilton Gibb say at in his obituary notice in 1962, he "never ceased to seek out in later Islamic literature and devotion" (264)?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Louis Massignon.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. When was the nation of Israel created?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1856.

6. What term refers to a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and non-verbal communication?
(a) Epistological.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Philology.

7. Who wrote The Races of Man?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Robert Knox.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

8. What word refers to one of the world' oldest monotheistic religions, founded in Iran approximately 3,500 years ago?
(a) Sufism.
(b) Epistilianism.
(c) Zoroastianism.
(d) Hinduism.

9. Who wrote History of Intellectual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolution in 1897-1901?
(a) John B. Crozier.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) Henri Baudet.

10. Who wrote the poem "Giaour"?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Homer.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Percy Shelley.

11. Who is the author of Social Evolution, published in 1894?
(a) Benjamin Kidd.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) V. W. Richards.

12. The course guide for Columbia College undergraduate in what year was said to stated that every other word in the language had to do with violence (287)?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1975.

13. When did William Muir die?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1905.

14. Who authored Didascalicon?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) St. Victor.
(c) Eduard Sachau.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

15. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?
(a) "Ganymed."
(b) "Prometheus."
(c) "Hegire."
(d) "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?

2. Who wrote La Tentation de Saint Antoine?

3. Who wrote Les Filles du Feau?

4. Who is the author of Muhammedanisches Recht?

5. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?

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