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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 authored Didascalicon?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) St. Victor.
(d) Eduard Sachau.
2. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Simon Ockley.
3. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?
(a) "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
(b) "Hegire."
(c) "Prometheus."
(d) "Ganymed."
4. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
(a) Anthropological.
(b) Epidemial.
(c) Ontological.
(d) Philological.
5. Where was Sir Hamilton Gibb born?
(a) France.
(b) Egypt.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?
2. Who does the author assert "sought liberation for himself outside the orthodox community by asking for, and finally getting, the very crucifixion refused by islam as a whole"?
3. Who rote The Romantic Agony?
4. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?
5. Who wrote The Races of Man?
Short Essay Questions
1. The author states that the primitiveness of Arab society exists simultaneously on at least two levels. What are these levels?
2. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?
3. What were the differences between the pilgrimages to the Orient by Chateaubriand and others such as Flaubert, Vigny, Nerval and others?
4. What impact did the 1973 oil crisis have on Western perceptions of the East?
5. How does the author describe the "over-value" of the Orient and the subsequent backlash in Chapter 2 (150)?
6. How did Nietzsche describe the truth of language, as cited in Chapter 3?
7. In what way does Edward Said compare Orientalism to a political doctrine in Chapter 3?
8. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society? When was it written and what was detailed in the book?
9. How does the author describe the "popular images and social science representations" of the Arab in American culture in Chapter 3?
10. Who was Hafiz and how are his works regarded in Orientalism?
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