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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Chapters on the Principles of International Law published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1909.

2. When was the essay "L'Occident devant l"orient: Primaute d'une Solution Culturelle" published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1902.

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

4. Who wrote an article for Harper's magazine stating that "Arabs are basically murderers and that violence and deceit are carried in the Arab genes" (287)?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Emmett Tyrrell.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. When was the National Defense Education Act established that linked the Social Science Research Council and Middle Eastern Studies?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1945.

6. Who wrote Les Filles du Feau?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gerard de Nerval.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

7. When did Morroe Berger publish a report "Middle Eastern and North African Studies: Developments and Needs"?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1911.

8. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Joseph Conrad.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Simon Ockley.

9. What name refers to the war between Egypt, Syria and Israel that mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1989.

10. Who stated in his theses about propaganda, "The propagandist outlook in fact combines respect for individuality with indifference to formal democracy" (292)?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Harold Lasswell.

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

12. Who is cited in Chapter 3 as having said, "... truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are" (203)?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

13. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?
(a) An instrument toward global power.
(b) A political instrument.
(c) An economic instrument.
(d) An instrument of destruction.

14. Who wrote The Legacy of Islam?
(a) Sir Hamilton Gibb.
(b) Eduard Sachau.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

15. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Giaour"?

2. Who wrote La Tentation de Saint Antoine?

3. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?

4. When was Reinhard Dozy born?

5. Who is most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race?

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