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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 the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1592.
(b) 1571.
(c) 1601.
(d) 1499.

2. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?
(a) An instrument toward global power.
(b) A political instrument.
(c) An instrument of destruction.
(d) An economic instrument.

3. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1665.

4. When did the painter Ludovic Lepic comment "L'Orient est mort au Caire" (170)?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1818.

5. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Revision."
(b) "Subjectivism."
(c) "Advancement."
(d) "Continuity."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

2. Who wrote Les Filles du Feau?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?

4. Who wrote the Iliad?

5. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

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