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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 was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

2. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Homer.

3. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1601.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1571.
(d) 1592.

4. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Johann Gottfried Herders.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1804.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

2. When did the French occupy Algiers?

3. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

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

5. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Bouvard and Pecuchet?

2. Who was Arthur James Balfour and what role did he play in the British government?

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

5. How does the author define Orientalism?

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

7. What was Lord Cromer's association with Egypt?

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

9. How did the emergence of Occidentalism affect Orientalism?

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

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