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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 invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Friedrich August Wolf.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1804.

3. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Zeus.

4. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 760-710 BC.
(b) 559-500 BC.
(c) 900-800 BC.
(d) 898-760 BC.

5. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1742.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

2. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

3. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?

4. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?

5. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. Why was Egypt considered a valuable land to rule over to the Europeans?

9. What role did Julius Mohl play in the development of Orientalism?

10. Who are Bouvard and Pecuchet?

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