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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. 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) "Simplicity."
(b) "Economy."
(c) "History."
(d) "Anthopology."

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

3. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

4. Who is credited with the following quote in Chapter 3: "How many thousand years this state of things has lasted [namely, that Arabs livei in a 'state of war'], those who shall read the earlist recores of the desert will tell us..." (229)?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) Gertrude Bell.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) Henri Baudet.

5. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?
(a) "Prometheus."
(b) "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
(c) "Hegire."
(d) "Ganymed."

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

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

3. When did Lamartine begin his trip to the Orient?

4. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

5. Who authored The Biology of British Politics in 1904?

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