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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the president of the American Oriental Society at its first annual meeting in 1843?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) John Pickering.

2. Who authored Didascalicon?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) St. Victor.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

3. 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) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

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

5. Who wrote Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples?
(a) Gustave Le Bon.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

6. 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)?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Edward Gibbon.
(d) Julius Mohl.

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

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

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

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

11. When does the author describe the political and military heyday of Islam, when it dominated both East and West?
(a) From the eighth century to the tenth century.
(b) From the third century to the fifteenth century.
(c) From the eighth century to the sixteenth century.
(d) From the sixth century to the eighth century.

12. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?
(a) "Simplicity."
(b) "History."
(c) "Anthopology."
(d) "Economy."

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

14. 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)?
(a) William Robertson Smith.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) V. W. Richards.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?

2. When was the nation of Israel created?

3. Who wrote Mimesis and Philogog?

4. Who authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

5. Who is the author of Muhammedanisches Recht?

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