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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. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 60,000.

2. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1848.

3. 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) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.
(d) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.

4. Who is the author of Social Evolution, published in 1894?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) Benjamin Kidd.

5. Who authored Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
(a) T. E. Lawrence.
(b) V. W. Richards.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) E. M. Forster.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the letter from T. E. Lawrence written in 1918 that is cited in Chapter 3?

2. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

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

4. Who wrote in Arabia Deserta, "The sun made me an Arab but never warped me to Orientalism" (237)?

5. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?

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