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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 does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
(a) Idiosyncrasy.
(b) Vernacular.
(c) Topos.
(d) Grate.

2. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1708.
(d) 1731.

3. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

4. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?
(a) The Opulent.
(b) The Occident.
(c) The Aryan.
(d) The Imperialistic.

5. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?
(a) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples?

2. Who authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

3. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

4. Who wrote The Races of Man?

5. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?

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