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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 Louis Lambert published?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1865.

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

3. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?
(a) 1449.
(b) 1195.
(c) 1312.
(d) 1402.

4. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 898-760 BC.
(b) 900-800 BC.
(c) 760-710 BC.
(d) 559-500 BC.

5. When was Reinhart Dozy's Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne jusqu'a .la Conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides published?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1856.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?

2. When was The Romantic Agony published?

3. Who is the author of Daniel Deronda?

4. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?

5. 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)?

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