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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 is credited in Chapter 3 as having said, "racial theory, stimulated by a rising nationalism, supported by an incomplete and mal-assimiilated science, was almost indisputed" (232)?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) Lionel Trilling.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

3. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1859.

4. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Heritage.
(c) Subordinate.
(d) Tradition.

5. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Philology.
(d) Linguology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

2. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

3. Who coined the phrase "les bourgeois conquerants"?

4. What word refers to one of the world' oldest monotheistic religions, founded in Iran approximately 3,500 years ago?

5. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

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