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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 wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Simon Ockley.

2. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Agave.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Agamemnon.

3. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1862.

4. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henry Huxley.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) V. W. Richards.

5. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1798.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?

2. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?

3. 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?

4. 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)?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?

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