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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 character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Agave.

2. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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) 1402.
(b) 1195.
(c) 1312.
(d) 1449.

4. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.

5. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) John Westlake.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the French occupy Algiers?

2. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

3. When was Reinhard Dozy born?

4. Who wrote History of Intellectual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolution in 1897-1901?

5. Who wrote A Biological View of Our Foreign Policy in 1896?

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