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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the novel Tancred?
(a) Benjamin Disraeli.
(b) Sir William Jones.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

2. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1889-1900.
(b) 1858-1861.
(c) 1902-1905.
(d) 1799-1805.

3. Who is credited in Chapter 3 as having said, "racial theory, stimulated by a rising nationalism, supported by an incomplete and mal-assimiilated science, was almost indisputed" (232)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Lionel Trilling.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) V. W. Richards.

4. 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) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Simon Ockley.

5. 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) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Harold Lasswell.

6. When did Reinhart Dozy die?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1901.

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

8. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
(a) Anthropological.
(b) Philological.
(c) Ontological.
(d) Epidemial.

9. In what year does the author describe the costume for Princeton's tenth-reunion class having been an Arab in Chapter 3?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1977.

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

11. When was Reinhard Dozy born?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1802.

12. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Friedrich Schelling.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Henri Baudet.

13. When was the novel Tancred published?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1856.

14. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Simon Ockley.

15. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?
(a) 1795-1800.
(b) 1856-1860.
(c) 1847-1848.
(d) 1892-1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Mimesis and Philogog?

2. Who does the author assert "sought liberation for himself outside the orthodox community by asking for, and finally getting, the very crucifixion refused by islam as a whole"?

3. When was The Legacy of Islam published?

4. Who is described by the author as "a crucial link in the intellectual chain connecting the White-Man-as-expert to the modern Orient" in Chapter 3 (235)?

5. When was Chapters on the Principles of International Law published?

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