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

2. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1859.

3. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?
(a) 59.
(b) 78.
(c) 65.
(d) 75.

4. Who wrote the poem "Giaour"?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Homer.
(d) Percy Shelley.

5. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Henri Baudet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

2. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?

3. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

4. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?

5. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

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