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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. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1892.
2. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Andrew Rothstein.
3. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) June 13, 1910.
(b) April 25, 1901.
(c) March 12, 1919.
(d) September 2, 1908.
4. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Subjectivism."
(b) "Revision."
(c) "Advancement."
(d) "Continuity."
5. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Edgar Quinet.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
2. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?
3. 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)?
4. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
5. Who wrote Don Quixote?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the importance of "Tableau historique," according to the author (127)?
2. How did perceptions of the Orient differ between the Renaissance and the eighteenth century?
3. What was Ernest Renan's background and education?
4. 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?
5. What role did Julius Mohl play in the development of Orientalism?
6. Who are Bouvard and Pecuchet?
7. Who was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron and what was his contribution to Orientalism?
8. What was Lord Cromer's association with Egypt?
9. When was the height of British colonialism? What areas were occupied by Britain?
10. 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?
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