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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 notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?
(a) 75%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 85%.

2. When was Reinhard Dozy born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1902.

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

5. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1592.
(b) 1571.
(c) 1601.
(d) 1499.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?

2. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

3. When did the French occupy Algiers?

4. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

5. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?

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