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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. Who wrote Mimesis and Philogog?

2. Who authored Didascalicon?

3. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?

4. Who was the president of the American Oriental Society at its first annual meeting in 1843?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Gustave E. von Grunebaum and what works did he contribute to Orientalism?

3. How does the author describe the "popular images and social science representations" of the Arab in American culture in Chapter 3?

4. Who was William Muir? What were his contributions to Orientalism?

5. What did R. N. Cust say about the Semitic-Islamic subfield of Orientalism at the Orientalist congress in Paris between 1873 and 1897?

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

7. 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?

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

9. How did Hurgronje perceive Islamic Law?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the four elements that define the institutional and intellectual foundations upon which Orientalism depend, according to author Edward Said? How are each of these elements defined? What are examples of these elements in history?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss R. W. Smith's impacts on Orientalism. How did Smith perceive the West's opinions and depictions of Muslim countries, cultures, and people? What were Smith's written contributions that are discussed in the book?

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