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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 authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) T. E. Lawrence.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) E. M. Forster.

2. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Sir William Jones.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.

3. Who is most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
(d) Simon Ockley.

4. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

5. What word refers to one of the world' oldest monotheistic religions, founded in Iran approximately 3,500 years ago?
(a) Sufism.
(b) Epistilianism.
(c) Zoroastianism.
(d) Hinduism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Reinhard Dozy born?

2. Who wrote The Races of Man?

3. When did the painter Ludovic Lepic comment "L'Orient est mort au Caire" (170)?

4. Who wrote in Arabia Deserta, "The sun made me an Arab but never warped me to Orientalism" (237)?

5. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?

Short Essay Questions

1. Howd does the author compare the worsk of Renan and Sacy in Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part III: Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination?

2. How does the author describe the "over-value" of the Orient and the subsequent backlash in Chapter 2 (150)?

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

4. What did R. N. Cust say about the Semitic-Islamic subfield of Orientalism at the Orientalist congress in Paris between 1873 and 1897?

5. Who was Hafiz and how are his works regarded in Orientalism?

6. How did Wilhelm Dilthey's ideas influence Orientalism?

7. Who was Reinhart Dozy and what were his contributions to Orientalism?

8. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?

9. Who was William Muir? What were his contributions to Orientalism?

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

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