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

2. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1571.
(b) 1601.
(c) 1592.
(d) 1499.

3. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?
(a) John Westlake.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

4. When was Chapters on the Principles of International Law published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1894.

5. Who wrote The Races of Man?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Robert Knox.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples?

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

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?

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

5. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

(see the answer key)

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