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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 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1792.

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

3. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

4. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

5. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) An Occidentalist.
(b) An epidemiologist.
(c) A biologist.
(d) A philologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

2. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?

3. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?

4. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

5. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

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