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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 the novel Louis Lambert?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Honore de Balzac.

2. When did Gustave Flouberd die?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1880.

3. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 20,000 pounds.
(b) 30,000 pounds.
(c) 50,000 pounds.
(d) 100,000 pounds.

4. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?
(a) 75%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 85%.

5. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Agave.
(c) Athena.
(d) Antigone.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

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

3. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?

4. When did the French occupy Algiers?

5. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is noted about Henry Kissinger's views on public policy in the book?

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

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

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

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

7. What were Silvestre de Sacy's contributions to Orientalism?

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

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

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

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