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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. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1601.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1592.
(d) 1571.

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

3. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) P. Charles Michel.
(d) Henri Baudet.

4. Who authored The Biology of British Politics in 1904?
(a) Charles Harvey.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) E. M. Forster.

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) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(b) Madame Bovary.
(c) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.
(d) Bouvard et Pecuchet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

2. Who wrote A Passage to India?

3. When did the Second Boer War begin?

4. Who is the author of Social Evolution, published in 1894?

5. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?

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