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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

2. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?
(a) "Accumulation."
(b) "Sovereignty."
(c) "Epistolism."
(d) "Generosity."

3. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?
(a) Honore de Balzac.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Henri Baudet.

4. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Albert Beguin.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Homer.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Socrates.

6. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Cervantes.
(d) Rimbau.

7. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?
(a) Astute.
(b) Quixotic.
(c) Gregarious.
(d) Articulate.

8. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) January, 1908.
(b) September, 1908.
(c) April, 1901.
(d) March, 1919.

9. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1698.

10. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Joseph McCarthy.
(b) Andrew Rothstein.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

11. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Henri Baudet.

12. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Lord Salisbury.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall.

13. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) George Sale.

14. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) The Duc de Broglie.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

15. When was Louis Lambert published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

2. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

3. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

5. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?

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