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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) John Westlake.

2. Who stated in his theses about propaganda, "The propagandist outlook in fact combines respect for individuality with indifference to formal democracy" (292)?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Harold Lasswell.
(d) Julius Mohl.

3. When was Princeton's department of Near Eastern Studies founded?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1927.

4. Who is the author of Muhammedanisches Recht?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Eduard Sachau.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?
(a) "Anthopology."
(b) "History."
(c) "Simplicity."
(d) "Economy."

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

7. Who wrote La Tentation de Saint Antoine?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

8. Who is cited in Chapter 3 as having said, "... truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are" (203)?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

9. Of whom did Sir Hamilton Gibb say at in his obituary notice in 1962, he "never ceased to seek out in later Islamic literature and devotion" (264)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Louis Massignon.
(c) Eduard Sachau.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

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

11. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?
(a) Sanskrit philology.
(b) Palmyrian epigraphy.
(c) Syrian philosophy.
(d) Russian history.

12. When was Chapters on the Principles of International Law published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1799.

13. When was the Balfour Declaration announced?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1911.

14. Who does the author assert "sought liberation for himself outside the orthodox community by asking for, and finally getting, the very crucifixion refused by islam as a whole"?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Al-Hallaj.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

15. The author notes in Chapter 3 that "The first Orientalist congress was organized and held in Paris" in what year (261)?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1873.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote and published Islam and Capitalism in 1966?

2. Who wrote an article for Harper's magazine stating that "Arabs are basically murderers and that violence and deceit are carried in the Arab genes" (287)?

3. 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)?

4. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?

5. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?

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