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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 Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) President de Brosses.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

2. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?
(a) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(b) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(c) Madame Bovary.
(d) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.

3. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1800.

4. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Albert Beguin.

5. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Cervantes.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rimbau.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

2. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

3. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

4. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did perceptions of the Orient differ between the Renaissance and the eighteenth century?

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

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

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

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

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 Edward Said describe Silvestre de Sacy's writing style?

9. Who was Anwar Abdel-Malek? What were his contributions to the study of the Orient?

10. 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?

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