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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was The Struggle for Existence in Human Society published?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1888.

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

4. Who wrote Mimesis and Philogog?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Erich Auerbach.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

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

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

7. The author notes in Chapter 3 that "The first Orientalist congress was organized and held in Paris" in what year (261)?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1832.

8. Who is the author of Daniel Deronda?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

10. Who authored The Biology of British Politics in 1904?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) Charles Harvey.
(d) Henri Baudet.

11. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
(a) Epidemial.
(b) Ontological.
(c) Anthropological.
(d) Philological.

12. Who is the author of Social Evolution, published in 1894?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) Benjamin Kidd.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?

2. 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?

3. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?

4. 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)?

5. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?

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