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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) 60,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

2. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1845.

3. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1858-1861.
(b) 1902-1905.
(c) 1799-1805.
(d) 1889-1900.

4. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) John Westlake.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

5. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1901.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Chapters on the Principles of International Law published?

3. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?

4. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?

5. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?

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