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Orientalism Test | Final Test - Medium

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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 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)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) Lionel Trilling.
(d) E. M. Forster.

2. Who is credited with the following quote in Chapter 3: "How many thousand years this state of things has lasted [namely, that Arabs livei in a 'state of war'], those who shall read the earlist recores of the desert will tell us..." (229)?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) Gertrude Bell.

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

4. When was the nation of Israel created?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1956.

5. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
(a) Epidemial.
(b) Anthropological.
(c) Ontological.
(d) Philological.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does the author describe the costume for Princeton's tenth-reunion class having been an Arab in Chapter 3?

3. Who authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

4. Who wrote The Races of Man?

5. Who wrote Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote Islam and Capitalism and how did this work differ from those of the earlier Orientalists?

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

5. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?

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

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

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

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

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

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