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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 poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?

2. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?

3. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?

4. Where was Sir Hamilton Gibb born?

5. What term refers to a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and non-verbal communication?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hurgronje perceive Islamic Law?

2. How did Nietzsche describe the truth of language, as cited in Chapter 3?

3. Who was Robert Knox and why does the author discuss him in Chapter 3?

4. How did Wilhelm Dilthey's ideas influence Orientalism?

5. What is significant about depictions of the Arab Muslim following World War II?

6. What can be seen in the works Mimesis and Philolog by Erich Auerbach, according to the author in Chapter 3?

7. Howd does the author compare the worsk of Renan and Sacy in Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part III: Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination?

8. How does the author describe the "over-value" of the Orient and the subsequent backlash in Chapter 2 (150)?

9. Who was Reinhart Dozy and what were his contributions to Orientalism?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss "the Orient" as it applies to the history of Orientalism. What region(s) does the Orient encompass? What different languages and cultures can be found within this span? What religions pervade in the Orient?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Arthur James Balfour's role in Orientalist history. What position did Balfour hold politically in Great Britain? What criticism did Balfour encounter in the later stages of the Boer War? What policies did Balfour present regarding the Orient?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impacts of the Council of Vienne in 1312. What was decreed by the council? How did the Council of Vienne establish Orientalism as an academic discipline? Where were programs in Orientalism established?

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