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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. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
(a) Topos.
(b) Idiosyncrasy.
(c) Grate.
(d) Vernacular.

2. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Agamemnon.

3. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1899.

4. Who wrote the book Voyageurs d'Orient?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henri Bordeaux.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote History of Intellectual Development on the Lines of Modern Evolution in 1897-1901?

2. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

3. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?

4. When did Reinhart Dozy die?

5. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

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