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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Arab oil boycott take place historically?
(a) 1965-1967.
(b) 1969-1970.
(c) 1971-1973.
(d) 1973-1974.

2. Who wrote Mimesis and Philogog?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Erich Auerbach.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

3. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1902-1905.
(b) 1858-1861.
(c) 1889-1900.
(d) 1799-1805.

4. Who was the president of the American Oriental Society at its first annual meeting in 1843?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) John Pickering.

5. Who is credited with the following quote in Chapter 3: "How many thousand years this state of things has lasted [namely, that Arabs livei in a 'state of war'], those who shall read the earlist recores of the desert will tell us..." (229)?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Gertrude Bell.

6. When did Lamartine begin his trip to the Orient?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1802.

7. What word refers to one of the world' oldest monotheistic religions, founded in Iran approximately 3,500 years ago?
(a) Sufism.
(b) Zoroastianism.
(c) Epistilianism.
(d) Hinduism.

8. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?
(a) Absolutism.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Despotism.
(d) Totalitarianism.

9. When did Jacques Berque and Massignon publish a dialogue on "the Arabs" in Esprit?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1940.

10. Who wrote A Passage to India?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

11. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1902.

12. When did Reinhart Dozy die?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1901.

13. Who authored The Biology of British Politics in 1904?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) Charles Harvey.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) Henri Baudet.

14. When was the National Defense Education Act established that linked the Social Science Research Council and Middle Eastern Studies?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1945.

15. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Social Evolution, published in 1894?

2. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?

3. When was William Muir born?

4. When was the nation of Israel created?

5. The author notes in Chapter 3 that "The first Orientalist congress was organized and held in Paris" in what year (261)?

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