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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 cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?
(a) The Duc de Broglie.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1699.

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

4. When was The Struggle for Existence in Human Society published?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1845.

5. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?
(a) 75%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 95%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?

2. Who wrote in Arabia Deserta, "The sun made me an Arab but never warped me to Orientalism" (237)?

3. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

4. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

5. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?

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