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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 Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) April 25, 1901.
(b) March 12, 1919.
(c) June 13, 1910.
(d) September 2, 1908.

2. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Friedrich Schelling.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

3. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Homer.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Rimbau.
(d) Cervantes.

4. When was William Muir born?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1819.

5. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

2. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?

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

4. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?

5. Who wrote in Arabia Deserta, "The sun made me an Arab but never warped me to Orientalism" (237)?

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