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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the painter Ludovic Lepic comment "L'Orient est mort au Caire" (170)?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1865.

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

4. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) John Westlake.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

5. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?
(a) Epidemilogical.
(b) Elucite.
(c) Ephemeral.
(d) Epistemological.

6. Who is cited in Chapter 3 with the following quote: "The political interest that ties England to India holds British work to a sustained contact with concrete realities, and maintains the cohesion between representations of the past and the spectacle of the present" (264)?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Sylvain Levi.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

7. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) P. Charles Michel.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) V. W. Richards.

8. The author asserts in Chapter 3 that in films and television " the Arab is associated either with lechery or" what (286)?
(a) "Religous extremity."
(b) "Jihad."
(c) "Bloodthirsty dishonesty."
(d) "Thievery."

9. Who wrote in Arabia Deserta, "The sun made me an Arab but never warped me to Orientalism" (237)?
(a) Charles Montagu Doughty.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) E. M. Forster.

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

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

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

13. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1816.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1854.

14. Who wrote the book Voyageurs d'Orient?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Henri Bordeaux.

15. Over what period of time was Leopold von Ranke's Weltgeschichte published?
(a) 1900-1905.
(b) 1881-1888.
(c) 1862-1865.
(d) 1821-1825.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote A Passage to India?

2. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?

3. Who wrote and published Islam and Capitalism in 1966?

4. When was the Balfour Declaration announced?

5. When was the novel Tancred published?

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