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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lamartine begin his trip to the Orient?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1802.

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

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

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

5. When did Reinhart Dozy die?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1901.

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

7. When was the novel Tancred published?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1856.

8. Who wrote Les Filles du Feau?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Gerard de Nerval.
(d) Sir William Jones.

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

10. 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)?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Eduard Sachau.
(c) Louis Massignon.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

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

13. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?
(a) Russian history.
(b) Palmyrian epigraphy.
(c) Sanskrit philology.
(d) Syrian philosophy.

14. When was the National Defense Education Act established that linked the Social Science Research Council and Middle Eastern Studies?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1945.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Reinhard Dozy born?

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 does the author assert "sought liberation for himself outside the orthodox community by asking for, and finally getting, the very crucifixion refused by islam as a whole"?

4. Where was Sir Hamilton Gibb born?

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

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