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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. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?
(a) "Hegire."
(b) "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
(c) "Ganymed."
(d) "Prometheus."

2. When did Lamartine begin his trip to the Orient?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1802.

3. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?
(a) "Anthopology."
(b) "Simplicity."
(c) "Economy."
(d) "History."

4. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1798.

5. When was the National Defense Education Act established that linked the Social Science Research Council and Middle Eastern Studies?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?

2. Who is the author of Social Evolution, published in 1894?

3. Who wrote History of Intellectual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolution in 1897-1901?

4. When did the Arab oil boycott take place historically?

5. Who wrote the book Voyageurs d'Orient?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society? When was it written and what was detailed in the book?

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

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

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

5. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?

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

7. How did Nietzsche describe the truth of language, as cited in Chapter 3?

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

9. Who was Gustave E. von Grunebaum and what works did he contribute to Orientalism?

10. 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?

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