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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 is credited in Chapter 3 as having said, "racial theory, stimulated by a rising nationalism, supported by an incomplete and mal-assimiilated science, was almost indisputed" (232)?

2. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?

3. What word from the text refers to a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something?

4. What name refers to the war between Egypt, Syria and Israel that mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights?

5. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society? When was it written and what was detailed in the book?

3. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?

4. Howd does the author compare the worsk of Renan and Sacy in Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part III: Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination?

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

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

7. Who was T. E. Lawrence and what were his contributions to Orientalism?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss Arthur James Balfour's role in Orientalist history. What position did Balfour hold politically in Great Britain? What criticism did Balfour encounter in the later stages of the Boer War? What policies did Balfour present regarding the Orient?

Essay Topic 3

Define Orientalism and Occidentalism as used by Edward Said in his book Orientalism. How do the studies and fields within these subjects differ? Is Orientalism to be commended historically? Why or why not?

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