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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. What word from the text refers to a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something?
2. Who is the author of Daniel Deronda?
3. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?
4. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?
5. When was William Muir born?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Hurgronje perceive Islamic Law?
2. Who was Robert Knox and why does the author discuss him in Chapter 3?
3. What impact did the 1973 oil crisis have on Western perceptions of the East?
4. How did Wilhelm Dilthey's ideas influence Orientalism?
5. 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?
6. What led up to the Yom Kippur War?
7. Who was William Muir? What were his contributions to Orientalism?
8. What is significant about depictions of the Arab Muslim following World War II?
9. Who was Reinhart Dozy and what were his contributions to Orientalism?
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 works of Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron and William Jones. What books and/or essays did these individuals produce? In what ways were their ideas similar? How were they different?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Henry Kissinger's views on globalism and international politics. How does Kissinger perceive foreign policy? What are the opposing styles of foreign policy as defined by Kissinger? How do Kissinger's views relate to Orientalism?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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