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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

2. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Edward William Lane.
(d) Johann Gottfried Herders.

3. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1649.

5. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Philology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Linguology.
(d) Epidemiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

2. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?

3. Who wrote The Bacchae?

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

5. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

Short Essay Questions

1. What different fields within the umbrella of Orientalism does the author describe in Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part II: Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental?

2. What is described in the quote from Edward William Lane's An Accound of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians that opens Chapter 2?

3. How does Edward Said describe Silvestre de Sacy's writing style?

4. Who was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron and what was his contribution to Orientalism?

5. How did the emergence of Occidentalism affect Orientalism?

6. When was the height of British colonialism? What areas were occupied by Britain?

7. Who was Ferdinand de Lesseps and how did he contribute to Orientalism?

8. How does the author describe the proximity of Islam to Christianity in Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part III: Projects?

9. What is the difference between the processes and ideas of Silvestre de Sacy and those of Ernest Renan?

10. What are the two traits that the author describes Orientalism carrying forward from the outset in Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis?

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