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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 is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Athena.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Agave.

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

3. When did Gustave Flouberd die?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1880.

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)?
(a) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(b) "A negative doctrine."
(c) "An anthropological endeavor."
(d) "A positive doctrine."

5. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1816.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

2. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

3. Who wrote the novel Tancred?

4. 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)?

5. When did William Muir die?

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