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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. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1789.

2. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(b) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(c) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.

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

4. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1889.

5. What is William Muir cited as saying "are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known" (151)?
(a) "The Nazi regime."
(b) "The establishment of Israel."
(c) "The impending immigration of masses."
(d) "The sword of Muhammed, and the Koran."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

2. 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)?

3. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?

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

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

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