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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. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?
(a) "A positive doctrine."
(b) "An anthropological endeavor."
(c) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(d) "A negative doctrine."

2. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Baudilaire.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Schwab.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. When does the author describe the political and military heyday of Islam, when it dominated both East and West?
(a) From the third century to the fifteenth century.
(b) From the eighth century to the sixteenth century.
(c) From the eighth century to the tenth century.
(d) From the sixth century to the eighth century.

4. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Homer.
(d) Plato.

5. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?
(a) "Ganymed."
(b) "Hegire."
(c) "Prometheus."
(d) "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?

2. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?

3. Who is the author of Daniel Deronda?

4. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

5. Who rote The Romantic Agony?

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