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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. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1702-1715.
(b) 1638-1639.
(c) 1568-1599.
(d) 1601-1635.

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

3. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1830.

4. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1712.

5. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) An epidemiologist.
(b) An Occidentalist.
(c) A philologist.
(d) A biologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

2. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

3. When was Ernest Renan born?

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

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Silvestre de Sacy's contributions to Orientalism?

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

4. What are the two situations that favor a textual attitude toward the Orient, according to the author in Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis?

5. How does the author define Orientalism?

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

7. How did the emergence of Occidentalism affect Orientalism?

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

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

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

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