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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. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

2. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1955.

3. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Schwab.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Baudilaire.

4. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?
(a) 1719.
(b) 1496.
(c) 1655.
(d) 1708.

5. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

2. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?

3. When did the French occupy Algiers?

4. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?

5. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is noted about Henry Kissinger's views on public policy in the book?

2. How was Islam perceived by the Orientalists over time, according to the author Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part II: Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental?

3. What is the importance of "Tableau historique," according to the author (127)?

4. What was The Citizen of the World and who was its author?

5. How did the emergence of Occidentalism affect Orientalism?

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

7. Who was Sir William Jones and what was his contribution to Orientalism?

8. What societies for Orientalism emerged in the nineteenth century?

9. When did the Council of Vienne take place? What was its impact on Orientalism?

10. Who was George Sale and what contribution did he make to Orientalism?

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