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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part I: Latent and Manifest Orientalism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1879.

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

3. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

4. When was Ernest Renan born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1823.

5. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 60,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?

2. When was L'Avenir de la Science published?

3. Silvestre de Sacy's family were adherents to what Catholic theological movement?

4. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

5. Who wrote The Races of Man?

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