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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. The course guide for Columbia College undergraduate in what year was said to stated that every other word in the language had to do with violence (287)?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1982.

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

8. When was the Balfour Declaration announced?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1888.

9. Who is cited in Chapter 3 as having said, "... truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are" (203)?
(a) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Simon Ockley.

10. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

12. When was Reinhart Dozy's Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne jusqu'a .la Conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides published?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1830.

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

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

15. 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) 1795-1800.
(b) 1856-1860.
(c) 1892-1899.
(d) 1847-1848.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom did Sir Hamilton Gibb say at in his obituary notice in 1962, he "never ceased to seek out in later Islamic literature and devotion" (264)?

2. When did the painter Ludovic Lepic comment "L'Orient est mort au Caire" (170)?

3. Who wrote the novel Tancred?

4. When was The Romantic Agony published?

5. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

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