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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. When was The Struggle for Existence in Human Society published?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1845.

2. When was Chapters on the Principles of International Law published?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1799.

3. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Simon Ockley.

4. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?
(a) Henry Huxley.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) V. W. Richards.

5. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?
(a) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(b) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.
(c) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(d) Madame Bovary.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

2. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

3. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?

4. Who is described by the author as "a crucial link in the intellectual chain connecting the White-Man-as-expert to the modern Orient" in Chapter 3 (235)?

5. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?

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