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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 asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Advancement."
(b) "Continuity."
(c) "Revision."
(d) "Subjectivism."

2. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
(a) Philological.
(b) Anthropological.
(c) Epidemial.
(d) Ontological.

3. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?
(a) Friedrich Schlegel.
(b) Edward Gibbon.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

5. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1798.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

2. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?

3. 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)?

4. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

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

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