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MIDTERM EXAM ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
Both questions below emphasize dif
MIDTERM EXAM ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
Both questions below emphasize different aspects of American interest and involvement in the
Middle East before the Civil War. The first focuses on faith and fantasy, often a blurry line when
these overlap with politics or foreign policy. Be sure to capture the diverse theological roots of
American Christian interest and influence in the region and those movements of a secular nature
that are related. In this vein, American popular culture and literature came to mirror some of the
false beliefs, romantic ideas, and other prejudices that formed at least some of the first
impressions Americans had of the Middle East and its peoples. Can you identify some of these
impressions?
The second question focuses on geopolitical interests that more directly reflect the strategic and
commercial interests that would become the staple motive of most Middle East involvement up
to the present. This is your opportunity to identify some of these activities. Yet even here faith
was never absent a mixed motive for doing business with the region, and in this period
commercial relationships developed in tandem with missionary interests to produce not just
Bibles and evangelism but institutional contributions as well. Can you discuss what some of
these institutional contributions were and why they happened as readily as they did?
INSTRUCTIONS
Length: 6-8 double spaced pages total for both questions (no title page necessary). You
may write more pages if necessary
Format: in current APA format
Citations: At least 7 sources must be used and may include the course text, Bible, and
scholarly articles. You need not use other sources than the text but may if necessary or
desirable and should cite page numbers of the text if necessary. The exam is open-
book/open-note/open-research and focuses on the assigned readings, the Discussion
topics, and other research related to the course content.
Answer the following 2 questions below separately, yet in a single Word document.
Essay Questions [Answer both]:
1. Briefly explain the role that faith played in U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East
prior to the Civil War, including the religious ideas and movements that informed USFP
during this period. Staying with Oren’s template of power, faith, and fantasy, can you
distinguish which American views expressed faith, and which fantasy?
2. Identify and explain primary U.S. geopolitical interests in the Middle East prior to 1900,
even if those interests happened on occasion to overlap with religious motives and
interests. Among other counter-intuitive developments, can you identify what Oren
considers the positive humanitarian consequences of American failure to successfully
evangelize most local Jews, Eastern Christians, and Muslims?
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
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