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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. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
(a) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.
(b) Empathy, education, information, and expression.
(c) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.
(d) Nobility, certainty, revision, and expansion.

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

3. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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

5. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?

2. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

3. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

4. 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)?

5. When did William Muir die?

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