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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 wrote The Legacy of Islam?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Eduard Sachau.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Sir Hamilton Gibb.

2. What term refers to Islamic mysticism or the inward dimension of Islam?
(a) Robism.
(b) Ankism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Sufism.

3. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?
(a) Syrian philosophy.
(b) Sanskrit philology.
(c) Palmyrian epigraphy.
(d) Russian history.

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

5. The author asserts in Chapter 3 that in films and television " the Arab is associated either with lechery or" what (286)?
(a) "Thievery."
(b) "Jihad."
(c) "Religous extremity."
(d) "Bloodthirsty dishonesty."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Balfour Declaration announced?

2. What word refers to one of the world' oldest monotheistic religions, founded in Iran approximately 3,500 years ago?

3. 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)?

4. When was William Muir born?

5. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the Crusades? When did they occur?

3. How did Hurgronje perceive Islamic Law?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy? What is entailed in this book?

10. The author states that the primitiveness of Arab society exists simultaneously on at least two levels. What are these levels?

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