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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Reinhart Dozy die?
2. Over what period of time was Leopold von Ranke's Weltgeschichte published?
3. Who stated in his theses about propaganda, "The propagandist outlook in fact combines respect for individuality with indifference to formal democracy" (292)?
4. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
5. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Wilhelm Dilthey's ideas influence Orientalism?
2. What impact did the 1973 oil crisis have on Western perceptions of the East?
3. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society? When was it written and what was detailed in the book?
4. What were the differences between the pilgrimages to the Orient by Chateaubriand and others such as Flaubert, Vigny, Nerval and others?
5. How did Nietzsche describe the truth of language, as cited in Chapter 3?
6. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?
7. How does the author define latent and manifest Orientalism in Chapter 3?
8. Who was Robert Knox and why does the author discuss him in Chapter 3?
9. How did Hurgronje perceive Islamic Law?
10. What are the "unsettling influences" that every Western traveler or resident of the Orient had to protect himself from, according to the author in Chapter 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what ways did Barthelemy d'Herbelot expand knowledge of Islam in the West? Upon what different areas were d'Herbelot's ideas and studies based? What two periods did d'Herbelot divide history? What are the two types of history as defined by d'Herbelot?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the life and works of Silvestre de Sacy. Why was Sacy considered to be the founder of modern Orientalism? Where was Sacy educated? How did his three-volume compendum on Orientalism influence the field?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Great Britain's history in the Middle East and Far East historically. When did the period of British colonialism begin? When did it end? What countries or regions were under British control? How did these areas gain independence?
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