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Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs 1. Women’s rights was an issue that was debated across Egypt and the Arab world as evident from the literature produced during al-nahda and beyond, which mainly included: - Poems - Plays - Fictional Texts 1. Modern Arab literat...

Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs 1. Women’s rights was an issue that was debated across Egypt and the Arab world as evident from the literature produced during al-nahda and beyond, which mainly included: - Poems - Plays - Fictional Texts 1. Modern Arab literature in all its forms, whether prose or poetry developed in a way that largely reflected the influence of the European literature - True 2. Women played an active role during al Nahda. However their contribution was limited to issues related to women’s rights. - False 3. Pan-Arabism ideology includes that - All Arab countries should be politically united 4. Neo-classical poets of the early stage of al Nahda refers to - The group of poets who maintained the traditional form and structure of Arabic poetry 5. The most famous poet of the Nahda period, named ‘the price of the poets’ is - Ahmed Shawqi 6. Which of the below belongs to the modern/contemporary Arab poets who largely deviated from the traditional form of Arabic poetry and wrote freestyle poems - Nazik al Malaika - Badr Shakir al Sayyab - Mahmud Darwish 7. Who was the scholar who wrote two important books on women’s rights during al nahda period? - Qasim Amin 8. National heroes who lead political struggle in Egypt during the late 19th century and early 20th century include - Sa’ad Zaghlul 9. Modern Arabic short story, novel and drama - Developed under the influence of European literature - Have roots in classical Arabic narratives such as maqamat and The One Thousand and One Nights - Developed during al Nahda 10. The British colonized Egypt in 1882 and remained there for - Around 40 years 11. Pan-Arab was the only ideology that prevailed in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world since Jamal ‘Abd al Nasir - False 12. The two important books on women’s right: ‘Women’s Liberation’ and ‘The New Woman’ were - Opposed by some conservative scholars, but well received by other more progressive ones 13. The most common theme in the modern arabic fiction is - The encounter between the east and the west 14. Al Nahda movement is largely seen by the author as including westernization of the Arab world - True 15. When the man had finished what he had to say he looked at me with an enigmatic smile playing at the corners of his mouth… Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs What is the narrator of the story (the old man from the village) trying to convey? Select the best answer. - The old man (the narrator of the story) believes that there would be plenty of room for the drum tree and the water-pump and the steamers stopping place should the mentally of the people of the village change 16. The author of Zaynab (1913) a romantic and largely fictional narrative that is acclaimed as the first Arabic novel by Western standard is - Muhammad Hunayn Haykal 17. According to al Afghani Islam, like Christianity preaches submission to authority - False 18. According to Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, one of the reasons that christians are not following the tenets of their religion is the influence of their.. - True 19. Mohammad Abduh is the teacher of al-Afghani - False 20. According to the Abdu/Afghani text the Muslim are not following the tenets of their religion because of the influence of Christianity. - False 21. According to the reading (Christianity and Islam and their followers Muhammad Abduh and al Afghani), Christianity preaches submission to authority, but the west is not following this aspect - True 22. According to the reading by Mohammad Abduh and Afghani, religion is: - God-given - Something man receives from preachers and admonishers - Taught and proclaimed by men 23. According to the reading ‘The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid’, the government decided to cut down the Doum tree to - Put through and agricultural scheme and set up a water pump 24. According to the reading ‘The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid’, once a preacher sent by the government fell ill and called to those who had sent him saying ‘these are people who are in no need of me or of any other preacher’ - True 25. Under the last government, the Doum Tree - Became ‘the symbol of the nation’s awakening’. The projects that included the building of a stopping place for the streamer seem to have been abandoned by the government 26. According to the reading ‘The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid’, what are the people of the vile proud of and consider a museum? - None of the mentioned options (the options mentioned were: the steamer, the doum tree of jandal, the water pump) (the correct option: places in which the local history and the great deeds of the past are preserved) 27. According to the reading ‘The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid’, what do the people of the village do when they get really ill? - Go to the Doum Tree 28. According to the reading ‘The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid’, who planted the Doum tree? - None of the given options (the given options were: the founder of the village, wad hamid, narrator’s father) (correct option: no one) Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs 29. Al Jabarti’s book, “The History of Egypt” is an important source for knowledge about the British occupation - False (it was the french occupation) 30. Who wrote the book called Our Women in Shari’a - None of the mentioned options (mentioned options were: May Ziyada, Saad Zaghloul, Tahar Haddad) 31. Khadive Ismail was extremely instrumental to the nahda in Egypt but he is also responsible for Egypt being in deep debt to the European powers - False 32. At least in its early stages the nahda was largely confined to - Egypt 33. Among the forces of change that led to the Nahda there are - The emancipation of the slaves and the freedom given to women 34. What is the conventional starting date for the Nahda? - 1798 35. The first periodical magazine that was established in Egypt in the wake of the Nahda was - Al Waqai al Masriyya 36. He is the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature - Najib Mahfuz 37. All of the Islamic revivalist and reformist movements of the 19th century agreed on one common goal which was - To return to the basic foundations of Islam 38. Jurji Zaydan used the pages of his own journal, Al Hilal, to publish a series of novels that educated and entertained generations of readers by setting key events in Islamic history against local backgrounds - True 39. Literary developments during alNahda did not occur at the same pace throughout the Arab world - True 40. Among the Syio-American mahjar writers who were to play a major role in transmitting the experience of contemporary western literature to the Arab East were: - Mikhael Nu’ayma and Jibran Khalil Jibran 41. Which newspaper was founded as a result of the Nahda’s reforming spirit reaching the Egyptian middle class? - Al Ahram (not sure) 42. The first successful free-verse poem in Arabic was written by an Iraqi - True 43. The _______ printing press was established by Muhammad Ali in _______. - Bulaqiya, 1822 44. Christian Arabs played an integral role in the Nahda: they had an essential influence over economic, political and cultural issues - True 45. Modern Arabic fiction and drama have developed under the influence of European literature. How true is this statement? - Though it has become customary to trace beginnings of modern Arabic drama entirely to Western influence, one must acknowledge the fact that both fiction and drama have roots in Classical Arabic narratives Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs 46. The major break with tradition in poetry and a genuine sense of modernity came in the aftermath of - Napoleonic invasion of Egypt (i think) 47. One of the most distinguished Egyptian ulama of the 19th century with a public service career that included but not limited to the editorship of the official newspaper Al Waqai al misriya was - Al Tahtawi (i guess) 48. Select the Azhar-trained blind scholar who after studying at the Sorbonne in France, served as Minister of Education in Egypt - Rifa’a Tahtawi 49. His poetry best encapsulates the fate of the Palestinians through vivid depictions of their losses, their defiance and their aspirations - Mahmud Darwish 50. Al Nadha may be described as - The Arab awakening - Explosion of new ideas - Rediscovery of Arabic Classics 51. During the Nahda, some Arab intellectuals attempted to introduce Arabic Heritage and heroic tales in Western style novels. Among these scholars is - Jurji Zaydan (i guess) 52. Please choose the correct answer: (all the mentioned options are correct) - Unlike drama which did not flourish too much among modern Arab writers, the short story and novel have developed considerably and matured in the hands of 20th writers such as Egyptian Najib Mahfouz as well as the Sudanese al tayib Salih(Among others), all of who were among the third youngest generation of prose writers in the Nahda era - Modern Arabic fictional and dramatic texts have most commonly explored the theme of the cultural encounter between the east and the west which always takes the dimension of the struggle between tradition (represented by the east, in this the case Arab world) and modernity (represented by the West). This theme has always constituted the background of much of the prose writing of the modern era, while others such as love and martial relationships politics religion and other social issues might feature at the foreground. - The prose literature – novels, short stories, and plays – of the wider Nahda period largely treats contemporary issues in either the conventional or experimental modes. From the historical biographical, and autobiographical to the philosophical allegorical psychological and so on. 53. According to the reading Christianity and Islam and their followers by Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani, unlike Christianity, Islam is based on conquest and power. - True 54. According to the reading Christianity and Islam and their followers by Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani, the survival of man depends on - His own work 55. According to the reading Christianity and Islam and their followers by Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani, the muslims “these days” - Are neglectful of power and have no interest or skill in military science 56. According to the reading Christianity and Islam and their followers by Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani, Christianity spread among Romans in European countries (who already had their own inherited beliefs, culture and customs) and gained access to them by way of persuasion and conviction. Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs - True 57. According to the reading Christianity and Islam and their followers by Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani, after surpassing other peoples in the arts of strategy and the science of tactics and battle, the Muslims found among themselves people appearing under the guise of true religion, but who were really innovators in it. - True 58. According to the reading Christianity and Islam and their followers by Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani, there is a strong doubt that the Muslims will ever become once more as they were in their prime. - False 59. Al Ahram was - Founded in Alexandria by the Taqla brothers 60. During the reign of Ismail Pasha, Egypt witnessed - An increase in the number of European-run schools - The establishment of the National Library (Dar al-Kutub) - The establishment of the first Egyptian state girls’ school 61. Muhammad Abduh and Qasim Amin were among the most significant 19th – 20th century religious and social reformers respectively. - True 62. Whose writings on the position of women in Islam signaled first stirrings of Egyptian feminism? - Qasim Amin 63. The Cairo Opera House was founded during the reign of - Ismail Pasha 64. Egypt entered a new era of modernization under the leadership of - Muhammad Ali 65. The Arab Nahda refers to - The movement that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century 66. The main event that propelled the process of modernization of the Arab world was - The occupation of Egypt by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798 67. Al Jabarti’s book ‘the history of Egypt’ is an important source for learning about what - In Egypt during the French occupation 68. Muhammad Ali was extremely instrumental to the nahda in Egypt - True 69. Muhammad Ali - Ruled Egypt in the 19th century after the French left - The Egyptian youth to the French system of education - Was a general in the Ottoman army 70. A full-scale printing press that published a wide range of materials - Was al-Bulaq press near Cairo 71. Khedive Ismail ruled between 1863 and 1879 and established - The opera house - A teacher training college - The national library 72. Khedive Ismail made every effort to make Egypt look like - Europe 73. Jamal al-Din al Afghani and Muhammad Abduh accepted European colonization Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs - False 74. In his famous book Takhlis al-ibriz ila talkhis Bariz, al Tahtawi al Tahtawi - Described the building of Paris in the early 19th century - Described the art of Paris - Described the culture in Paris 75. Jamal al Din al afghani and Muhammad Abduh - Were leaders of the Islamic religious reform 76. Intellectuals who contributed to the Nahda movement included - Muslim Arabs - Non-Arabs - Christian Arabs 77. Al inhitat translates to the age of development - False 78. Who ruled during the golden age of Arab civilization - The Abbasids 79. Who led the French when they occupied Egypt - Napoleon Bonaparte 80. When did the French invade Egypt - 18th century 81. What was a major reason for the start of the Nahda - The invasion of the French in Egypt 82. What may be considered by some as the reason France invaded Egypt - Egypt’s location next to the Mediterranean Coast - Egypt can be used by the French to threaten Britain’s power - They thought they could control Syria and Lebanon through Egypt 83. With the French occupying Egypt came about 150 scientist to Egypt - True 84. What country was the de facto (in fact) center of Al Nahda - Egypt 85. Egypt was the center of al Nahda due to its geographical location and stablic political - True 86. Which of the following is false about Muhammad Ali - He is of Egyptian descent 87. Who is considered the architect of modern Arab and Islamic cultural revival - Muhammad Ali 88. During his rule Muhammed Ali abandoned the French system previously introduced to the Egyptians - False 89. During Muhammed Ali’s rule - He introduced Egyptian youth to the French education system - Sent some youth to study in countries as Italy and Egypt - Commissioned the translation of western text into Arabic 90. The British developed the printing press in Egypt - False 91. One of the surviving newspapers from the time of Muhammad Ali - Al Ahram 92. Syria and Lebanon witnessed an emergence in journalism during the Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs - 19th century 93. Al Tahtawi is a graduate and scholar of - None of the above (mentioned options were al Majaz, Al Zaytoona, Al ward) 94. During his rule Khedive Ismail - Established the first girls school 95. One of the people sent first by Muhammad Ali to study in France - Al Tahtawi 96. Al Tahtawi believed in Muhammed Ali’s modernization of Egypt - True 97. One could say that al tahtawi has a bias view in favor of the french - True 98. The leaders of the Islamic religious reform in the 19th century were - Al Afghani and Abduh 99. Al Afghani and Abduh saw to traditionalize Islam and interpret its precepts - False 100. An important topic in the 12th century was women’s rights - False 101. Qasim Amin wrote - Tahrir al mar’a 102. What caused the spur of nationalist activities in the 19th century - The urban movement - The struggle against British imperialism - The emergence of new political personalities 103. Jamal abd Al Nasser ruled in the ______ after the _______ - 20th century, populist Egyptian revolution 104. The most famous form of art among the Arabs is - Poetry 105. Neo-classical poets cherished embraced and turned to classical poetry for inspiration - True 106. Which of the following poets turned to classical poetry - Ahmad Shawqi - Hafiz Ibrahim - Mahmud al Barudi 107. Which of the following poets was Lebanese - Khalil Mutran 108. Neo-classical poems reflect little influence of European civilization in language and structure - True 109. Amir al shu’ara was - Ahmad Shawqi 110.Ahmad Shawqi: - Wrote some historical plays using the poetic form - Helped develop modern Arabic drama in its early stages - Reincarnated some of the works of classical Arab poets 111.After Neo-classical poetry emerged modern arabic poetry that was led by mostly - Syro-Lebanese 112.Some Mahjar poets were Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs - Jubran Khalil Jubran - Ilya Abu Madi - Makhail Nuayma 113.Some group broke from the traditional qasida style after generation of neoclassical poetry - True 114.Western Literature had no impact on the emergence of alshi’r al manthur - False 115.The writer of fiction and drama with more direct prose style was - Jurji Zaydan 116.The most famous Arabic play writer of the modern period is - Tawfiq Hakim 117.No Arab writer ever won the Nobel peace prize - False 118.Following the Egyptian occupation of Greater Syria, which lasted for a decade or so under the rule of the Khedive Ibrahim Pasha, many educated Syrians left the country; some to Egypt; and others to the Americas, establishing there a number of literary groups and social communities. - True 119.The French and Italian colonialism of North Africa excreted a powerful political as well as linguistic grip on the countries concerned. - True 120. The adaptation of European works into Arabic included the reproduction of characters, settings, and circumstances in Arab guise. - True 121. The first significant step towards the establishment of a modern Arabic drama was taken - In Beirut in 1847 122. Whose writings on the position of women in Islam signaled first stirrings of Egyptian feminism? - Qasim Amin 123. Unlike Egypt, the Levant was exposed to the West since the 16th century through its Christian community. - True 124. What was the first country of the North African countries to be occupied by the French? - Algeria 125. What was the powerful influence on the development of modern Arabic literature in North Africa? - Bilingualism - Propensity of Arab writers for writing in French rather than Arabic 126. France's greater purpose behind conquering Egypt was to - Reap its economy, money and goods financing France’s further military and social goals 127. Takhlis al-ibriz ila talkhis Bariz is one of Francis Marrash's best known works - False 128. The French campaign placed Egypt in the spotlight due to its important ________ which had repeatedly attracted the attention of strong countries seeking to occupy it - Geographical location 129. The Wahhabis and sanusis were influenced by the Napoleonic expedition and so tried to reform the Arab and Islamic world by getting rid of what made them behind the west - False Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs 130. Who is famous for writing historical novels? - Jurji Zaydan 131. Al Muqaddimah (the introduction) was the title of Ibn Khaldun’s book on history - False 132. Who wrote a book that exemplifies the reaction of educated Egyptians to the first encounter with Western culture in the modern period? - Al Jabarti 133. Nationalist movements in the 19th and 20th century Egypt were against - Both, the despotism of the ruling dynasty and British colonialism 134. The first Arab novel is believed to be by - Haykal 135. The Egyptians revolution that brought Abd al-Nasir to power took place in - The 1950s 136. Mahjar school/movement in literature was in - America 137. Free verse - Appeared in the late 1940s 138. She/He belongs to Neo-classical school of poetry - Ahmad Shawqi 139. An important person during Nahda in the field of translation - Al Tahtawi 140. A form of literature that is believed to have been imported from the West - Drama 141. Tayeb Salih writes that if one is to visit their village as a tourist, it is likely, that one would not stay long. Why? - Because of the sand-flies that appear in winter - Because of the horse-flies that appear in summer - Because there is nothing to experience in spring or fall 142. The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid became - The symbol of the nation’s awakening 143. The Doum Tree could only be seen from a specific location in the village - False 144. The Doum tree was imported to the village by Wad Hamid - False 145. The population of the village increases on annual basis - False 146. The Doum tree was named after Wad Hamid who was a slave to a man that did not allow him to pray to god - True 147. Through his work (Dom Tree), Tayeb Salih made the world aware of a lesser known culture of the African continent - True 148. Tayeb Salih’s writing style: the graphic writing of his short story allows the reader to be transported into the Sudanese Village where the physical environment and memorized by the stories that are shared by the old man - True Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs 149. “The Doum of Wad Hamid” is - More than a mere tree - A spirit figure symbol - A cultural icon and a part of everyday rural life of the inhabitants of that village 150. What is the significance of the Doum tree in Tayeb Salih’s story? Select the best answer - The tree signifies the nation’s awakening but it also represents the nation’s heritage and identity and struggle to protect the latter against the wind of westernization and modernization 151. In the story of “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” the narrator keeps calling the stranger or visitor of the village - My son 152. In the story The Doum of Wad Hamid, the people of the village insisted on having agricultural scheme even that necessitated the cutting down of the Doum tree - False 153. When the government official first told the people of the village that the government intents to build up a stopping place for the streamer, the people - None of the given options 154. What is one thing the people of the village insist their visitors should see - The local museum 155. Who was Wad Hamid according to the narrator of the story - One of god's holy saints 156. At the end of the story (Doum Tree) - All the mentioned options (idk what the options mentioned are) 157. According to the story, The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid, there is some monument like the Doum tree of Wad Hamid in every village in the country - True 158. According to the reading “Christianity and Islam and their followers” what made muslims loose the principles of their faith? - They found among themselves people appearing under guise of true religion - They mixed alien elements with its fundamentals - The principles of human helplessness spread among them 159. So what helping hand of fate was it which took the Christians and led them to what was not in the principles of their faith? … Does the author imply that had Christianity been forced on the people of Europe they would have adopted it properly? Does he imply that religion should be imposed for it to be adopted correctly? - False 160. With their description of Christianity and Islam, al afghani and abduh sought to, select the best answer: - Clarify how different these two religions are and how one is a religion of peace and other a religion of war 161. When the king and his relatives go away for vacation in the country, the palaces are - None of the above 162. According to the authors, Christians are not following the tenets of their religion because of the fate that existed before the Romans - True 163. The treasures of the house are, according to the writer, best appreciated in the presence of Topic 6: Al Nahda MCQs - The lady of the house 164. According to the author the following people are outstanding among the European nations in their attachment to the arts and sciences - The French 165. What do some French women do when they get pregnant without being married? - Go on vacation 166. According to al afghani/abduh text: what has major control over man’s thought? - Religion 167. According to al afghani/abduh text: the difference between the unexpected behavior of the Muslims and Christians can be ascribed to - None of the mentioned options 168. Muhammad Ali’s achievements can be descrived as phenomenally intercultrual - True 169. The rulers of _____ largely contributed to the nahda movement - Egypt (i guess) 170. The Arab Nahda is a movement that lasted between - 1798 and 1970s (i guess) 171. Jubran Khalil Jubran was a lebanese poet and writer who immigrated to _________ - United States