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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who is credited with the following quote in Chapter 3: "How many thousand years this state of things has lasted [namely, that Arabs livei in a 'state of war'], those who shall read the earlist recores of the desert will tell us..." (229)?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) Gertrude Bell.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) E. M. Forster.

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

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

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

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

7. When did Lamartine begin his trip to the Orient?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1818.

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

9. 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) "Hegire."
(b) "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
(c) "Prometheus."
(d) "Ganymed."

10. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1902.

11. 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) Emmett Tyrrell.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

12. Who is most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
(d) Simon Ockley.

13. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?
(a) Palmyrian epigraphy.
(b) Syrian philosophy.
(c) Sanskrit philology.
(d) Russian history.

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

15. What word from the text refers to a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something?
(a) Epistle.
(b) Acidic.
(c) Polemic.
(d) Principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?

3. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?

4. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

5. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?

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