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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

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

4. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
(a) Topos.
(b) Vernacular.
(c) Grate.
(d) Idiosyncrasy.

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

6. 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) 1847-1848.
(b) 1856-1860.
(c) 1795-1800.
(d) 1892-1899.

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

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

9. Who is the author of Muhammedanisches Recht?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Eduard Sachau.

10. What term refers to Islamic mysticism or the inward dimension of Islam?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Robism.
(c) Sufism.
(d) Ankism.

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

12. When did the Arab oil boycott take place historically?
(a) 1969-1970.
(b) 1973-1974.
(c) 1965-1967.
(d) 1971-1973.

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

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

15. Who wrote the book Voyageurs d'Orient?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Henri Bordeaux.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?

2. Who is credited in Chapter 3 as having said, "racial theory, stimulated by a rising nationalism, supported by an incomplete and mal-assimiilated science, was almost indisputed" (232)?

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

4. Who rote The Romantic Agony?

5. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?

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