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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 is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(b) Lord Salisbury.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

2. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1709.

3. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?
(a) 1449.
(b) 1195.
(c) 1402.
(d) 1312.

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

5. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(d) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

2. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?

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. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was The Citizen of the World and who was its author?

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

6. What role did Julius Mohl play in the development of 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. 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?

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

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

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