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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 A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?
2. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?
3. What term refers to a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and non-verbal communication?
4. When was the nation of Israel created?
5. Who stated in his theses about propaganda, "The propagandist outlook in fact combines respect for individuality with indifference to formal democracy" (292)?
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. In what way does Edward Said compare Orientalism to a political doctrine in Chapter 3?
3. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy? What is entailed in this book?
4. Who was Gustave E. von Grunebaum and what works did he contribute to Orientalism?
5. How does the author describe the "popular images and social science representations" of the Arab in American culture in Chapter 3?
6. Who was Hafiz and how are his works regarded in Orientalism?
7. What were the Crusades? When did they occur?
8. How does the author describe the "over-value" of the Orient and the subsequent backlash in Chapter 2 (150)?
9. Who was T. E. Lawrence and what were his contributions to Orientalism?
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
Discuss the study of philology as applied to Orientalism. Why were most eighteenth century Orientalists founded in the study of philology? How has the lack of philological studies in the U.S. impacted modern Orientalism?
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 the works of Gustave Flaubert and the influences of Orientalism in his works. What literary movement was Flaubert associated with? Why does Edward Said discuss Madame Bovary in Orientalism?
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