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

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

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. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?
(a) 1759-1765.
(b) 1798-1801.
(c) 1698-1702.
(d) 1709-1711.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

2. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

3. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?

4. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

5. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author define Orientalism?

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

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

6. Who are Bouvard and Pecuchet?

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

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

9. What was Ernest Renan's background and education?

10. What works did Friedrich Schlegel produce? What was his association with Orientalism?

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