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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. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(c) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.

2. Who wrote Les Filles du Feau?
(a) Gerard de Nerval.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

3. Who wrote History of Intellectual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolution in 1897-1901?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) John B. Crozier.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) Henri Baudet.

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

5. To whom is the letter from T. E. Lawrence written in 1918 that is cited in Chapter 3?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Henri Baudet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?

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

3. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?

4. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?

5. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

(see the answer key)

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