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

2. When did Morroe Berger publish a report "Middle Eastern and North African Studies: Developments and Needs"?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1911.

3. What word from the text refers to a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something?
(a) Acidic.
(b) Polemic.
(c) Principle.
(d) Epistle.

4. Who wrote and published Islam and Capitalism in 1966?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Maxime Rodinson.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. Of whom did Sir Hamilton Gibb say at in his obituary notice in 1962, he "never ceased to seek out in later Islamic literature and devotion" (264)?
(a) Louis Massignon.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Eduard Sachau.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

2. When was the National Defense Education Act established that linked the Social Science Research Council and Middle Eastern Studies?

3. Who is cited in Chapter 3 as having said, "... truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are" (203)?

4. When was the Balfour Declaration announced?

5. Who wrote the poem "Giaour"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was T. E. Lawrence and what were his contributions to Orientalism?

3. What are the "unsettling influences" that every Western traveler or resident of the Orient had to protect himself from, according to the author in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

7. What is significant about depictions of the Arab Muslim following World War II?

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

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

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

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