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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 wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Rimbau.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Cervantes.

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

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henri Baudet.

4. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1823.

5. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?

2. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

3. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?

4. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. Who are Bouvard and Pecuchet?

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

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

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

10. What are the two situations that favor a textual attitude toward the Orient, according to the author in Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis?

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