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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 Les Filles du Feau?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gerard de Nerval.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Sir William Jones.

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

3. When was Chapters on the Principles of International Law published?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1894.

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

5. When was The Romantic Agony published?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Mimesis and Philogog?

2. The author asserts in Chapter 3 that in films and television " the Arab is associated either with lechery or" what (286)?

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

4. When did Morroe Berger publish a report "Middle Eastern and North African Studies: Developments and Needs"?

5. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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