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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. Who is credited with the following quote in Chapter 3: "How many thousand years this state of things has lasted [namely, that Arabs livei in a 'state of war'], those who shall read the earlist recores of the desert will tell us..." (229)?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Gertrude Bell.
(d) E. M. Forster.

2. Who wrote the book Voyageurs d'Orient?
(a) Henri Bordeaux.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

3. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Edward Gibbon.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henri Baudet.

4. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) An unaccepted idea.
(b) A new idea.
(c) A revised idea.
(d) An accepted idea.

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

2. Who wrote History of Intellectual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolution in 1897-1901?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

4. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?

5. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?

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