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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) Lionel Trilling.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) V. W. Richards.

2. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

3. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?
(a) Epidemilogical.
(b) Epistemological.
(c) Ephemeral.
(d) Elucite.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?
(a) "Simplicity."
(b) "History."
(c) "Anthopology."
(d) "Economy."

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

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

14. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1902-1905.
(b) 1889-1900.
(c) 1858-1861.
(d) 1799-1805.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Balfour Declaration announced?

2. Where was Sir Hamilton Gibb born?

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

4. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?

5. Who wrote Mimesis and Philogog?

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