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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. When was Reinhart Dozy's Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne jusqu'a .la Conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides published?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1830.

2. What term refers to a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and non-verbal communication?
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Epistological.
(d) Philology.

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

4. Who authored Didascalicon?
(a) St. Victor.
(b) Eduard Sachau.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. Who was the president of the American Oriental Society at its first annual meeting in 1843?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) John Pickering.
(d) Julius Mohl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Muhammedanisches Recht?

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

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

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

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What can be seen in the works Mimesis and Philolog by Erich Auerbach, according to the author in Chapter 3?

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

5. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?

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

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

8. How does the author define latent and manifest Orientalism in Chapter 3?

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

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

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