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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. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?
(a) Absolutism.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Despotism.
(d) Totalitarianism.

2. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Lord Salisbury.

3. 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) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(b) Sir William Jones.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

4. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

5. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Johann Gottfried Herders.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

2. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

3. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?

4. When does the author describe the political and military heyday of Islam, when it dominated both East and West?

5. Who wrote Candide?

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