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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. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) An epidemiologist.
(b) A biologist.
(c) An Occidentalist.
(d) A philologist.

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

3. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) April 25, 1901.
(b) September 2, 1908.
(c) June 13, 1910.
(d) March 12, 1919.

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

5. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Cervantes.
(c) Rimbau.
(d) Voltaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

2. Who wrote the poem "Giaour"?

3. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?

4. Who wrote A Passage to India?

5. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

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