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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 the novel Tancred?
2. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?
3. The course guide for Columbia College undergraduate in what year was said to stated that every other word in the language had to do with violence (287)?
4. When was the essay "L'Occident devant l"orient: Primaute d'une Solution Culturelle" published?
5. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
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 impact did the 1973 oil crisis have on Western perceptions of the East?
3. Who wrote Islam and Capitalism and how did this work differ from those of the earlier Orientalists?
4. 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?
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. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy? What is entailed in this book?
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. Who wrote Le Regne Animal and how was this work connected to Orientalism?
9. What can be seen in the works Mimesis and Philolog by Erich Auerbach, according to the author in Chapter 3?
10. What were the differences between the pilgrimages to the Orient by Chateaubriand and others such as Flaubert, Vigny, Nerval and others?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the impacts of the Council of Vienne in 1312. What was decreed by the council? How did the Council of Vienne establish Orientalism as an academic discipline? Where were programs in Orientalism established?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt and its impacts on Orientalism. What theories and ideas Did Cromer present in the book? How would you characterize his depictions of Egyptian culture, language, and religion?
Essay Topic 3
How has Islam been perceived largely in Orientalist history? In what ways is Islam compared with Christianity? How have perceptions of Islam evolved over time in the West?
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