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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 Candide?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Homer.
(c) Cervantes.
(d) Rimbau.

2. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Homer.

3. 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) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(b) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.
(c) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(d) Madame Bovary.

4. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gerard de Nerval.

5. 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)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

2. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

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)?

4. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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