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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. 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) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Agave.

2. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?
(a) Despotism.
(b) Absolutism.
(c) Totalitarianism.
(d) Egalitarianism.

3. Who wrote History of Intellectual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolution in 1897-1901?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) John B. Crozier.

4. When was the novel Tancred published?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1847.

5. 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)?
(a) "Anthopology."
(b) "Simplicity."
(c) "Economy."
(d) "History."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

2. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?

3. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

4. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?

5. Who rote The Romantic Agony?

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