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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. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1568-1599.
(b) 1702-1715.
(c) 1638-1639.
(d) 1601-1635.

2. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Subjectivism."
(b) "Continuity."
(c) "Revision."
(d) "Advancement."

4. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1789.

5. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?
(a) Madame Bovary.
(b) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(c) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(d) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?

2. 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?

3. Who wrote The Races of Man?

4. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?

5. Who authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

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