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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part II: Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism's Worldliness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?
(a) The Aryan.
(b) The Opulent.
(c) The Imperialistic.
(d) The Occident.

2. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

3. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1902.

4. Who wrote the novel Tancred?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Benjamin Disraeli.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Sir William Jones.

5. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Linguology.
(c) Philology.
(d) Anthropology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?

2. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?

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

4. When was Ernest Renan born?

5. Who coined the phrase "les bourgeois conquerants"?

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