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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 word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Astute.
(c) Quixotic.
(d) Gregarious.

2. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?
(a) Joseph Conrad.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

3. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

4. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1848.

5. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1808.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?

2. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

3. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?

4. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?

5. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?

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