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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 the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?
(a) Albert Beguin.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

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

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) Madame Bovary.
(d) The Search for Cultural Identity.

4. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1712.
(d) 1799.

5. Who coined the phrase "les bourgeois conquerants"?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Charles Moraze.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?

2. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

3. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

4. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

5. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Who was George Sale and what contribution did he make to Orientalism?

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

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

7. When did the Council of Vienne take place? What was its impact on Orientalism?

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

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

10. How does the author define Orientalism?

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