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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To whom is the letter from T. E. Lawrence written in 1918 that is cited in Chapter 3?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) E. M. Forster.

4. When was Princeton's department of Near Eastern Studies founded?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1800.

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

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

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

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

9. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

10. 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) "Anthopology."
(b) "Simplicity."
(c) "Economy."
(d) "History."

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

12. 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.

13. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 25,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the novel Tancred published?

2. When was The Legacy of Islam published?

3. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?

4. Who was the president of the American Oriental Society at its first annual meeting in 1843?

5. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?

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