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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Edward Gibbon.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

2. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Friedrich August Wolf.

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

4. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1788.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1699.

5. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Homer.
(d) Plato.

6. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1804.

7. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Continuity."
(b) "Advancement."
(c) "Subjectivism."
(d) "Revision."

8. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1862.

9. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

10. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

12. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) Charles Wilkins.
(c) M. H. Abrams.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

13. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?
(a) 95%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 85%.

14. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Edward William Lane.
(d) President de Brosses.

15. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) An unaccepted idea.
(b) A new idea.
(c) An accepted idea.
(d) A revised idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

2. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

3. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

4. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?

5. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?

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