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

2. When was The Struggle for Existence in Human Society published?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1823.

3. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1889-1900.
(b) 1858-1861.
(c) 1902-1905.
(d) 1799-1805.

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

5. Who is the author of Daniel Deronda?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Sir William Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

2. Who is credited with the following quote in Chapter 3: "How many thousand years this state of things has lasted [namely, that Arabs livei in a 'state of war'], those who shall read the earlist recores of the desert will tell us..." (229)?

3. Who wrote Candide?

4. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

5. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?

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