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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 was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1894.

2. When does the author describe the political and military heyday of Islam, when it dominated both East and West?
(a) From the eighth century to the tenth century.
(b) From the sixth century to the eighth century.
(c) From the eighth century to the sixteenth century.
(d) From the third century to the fifteenth century.

3. When was the nation of Israel created?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1856.

4. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Joseph Conrad.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

5. What name refers to the war between Egypt, Syria and Israel that mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

2. Who is credited in Chapter 3 as having said, "racial theory, stimulated by a rising nationalism, supported by an incomplete and mal-assimiilated science, was almost indisputed" (232)?

3. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?

4. Who is credited with the following quote in Chapter 3: "How many thousand years this state of things has lasted [namely, that Arabs livei in a 'state of war'], those who shall read the earlist recores of the desert will tell us..." (229)?

5. When did William Muir die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the differences between the pilgrimages to the Orient by Chateaubriand and others such as Flaubert, Vigny, Nerval and others?

2. How does the author describe the Orient's depictions in the works of Byron and Hugo in Chapter 2?

3. Who wrote Islam and Capitalism and how did this work differ from those of the earlier Orientalists?

4. How did Hurgronje perceive Islamic Law?

5. How does the author describe the "popular images and social science representations" of the Arab in American culture in Chapter 3?

6. Who was Robert Knox and why does the author discuss him in Chapter 3?

7. What impact did the 1973 oil crisis have on Western perceptions of the East?

8. Who wrote "The White Man's Burden" and why does the author discuss this work in Chapter 3?

9. How many books were written between 1800 and 1950 regarding the Orient? What does the author assert about these works in Chapter 3?

10. In what way does Edward Said compare Orientalism to a political doctrine in Chapter 3?

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