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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part I: Latent and Manifest Orientalism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1865.

2. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1802.

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

4. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Henri Baudet.

5. When does the author describe the political and military heyday of Islam, when it dominated both East and West?
(a) From the eighth century to the sixteenth century.
(b) From the eighth century to the tenth century.
(c) From the sixth century to the eighth century.
(d) From the third century to the fifteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Louis Lambert published?

2. When was Ernest Renan born?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?

4. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?

5. When was L'Avenir de la Science published?

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