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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the painter Ludovic Lepic comment "L'Orient est mort au Caire" (170)?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1884.

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

3. Who wrote the poem "Giaour"?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Homer.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Percy Shelley.

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

5. When did Morroe Berger publish a report "Middle Eastern and North African Studies: Developments and Needs"?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1967.

6. The author asserts in Chapter 3 that in films and television " the Arab is associated either with lechery or" what (286)?
(a) "Bloodthirsty dishonesty."
(b) "Thievery."
(c) "Religous extremity."
(d) "Jihad."

7. When was The Legacy of Islam published?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1931.

8. Who stated in his theses about propaganda, "The propagandist outlook in fact combines respect for individuality with indifference to formal democracy" (292)?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Harold Lasswell.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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

10. When was William Muir born?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1819.

11. Who wrote and published Islam and Capitalism in 1966?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Maxime Rodinson.
(c) Eduard Sachau.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

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

14. 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) 1982.
(d) 1969.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Princeton's department of Near Eastern Studies founded?

3. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?

4. When did William Muir die?

5. In what year does the author describe the costume for Princeton's tenth-reunion class having been an Arab in Chapter 3?

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