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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote La Tentation de Saint Antoine?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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"?
(a) Al-Hallaj.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Eduard Sachau.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

3. 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) 1892-1899.
(b) 1847-1848.
(c) 1795-1800.
(d) 1856-1860.

4. 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.

5. Who wrote A Passage to India?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) V. W. Richards.

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

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

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

9. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

10. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?
(a) The Imperialistic.
(b) The Aryan.
(c) The Occident.
(d) The Opulent.

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

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

13. When did Jacques Berque and Massignon publish a dialogue on "the Arabs" in Esprit?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1960.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

2. When does the author describe the political and military heyday of Islam, when it dominated both East and West?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 3 that in films and television " the Arab is associated either with lechery or" what (286)?

4. The author notes in Chapter 3 that "The first Orientalist congress was organized and held in Paris" in what year (261)?

5. What term refers to Islamic mysticism or the inward dimension of Islam?

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