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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. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?
(a) 65%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 95%.

2. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
(a) Grate.
(b) Idiosyncrasy.
(c) Topos.
(d) Vernacular.

3. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1789.

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Sir William Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Romantic Agony published?

2. When was Reinhard Dozy born?

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

4. When was William Muir born?

5. When was Reinhart Dozy's Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne jusqu'a .la Conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides published?

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