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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 referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

2. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Andrew Rothstein.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

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

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1948.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

2. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

3. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

4. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?

5. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author define Orientalism?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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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