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 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) Agamemnon.
(c) Agave.
(d) Zeus.

2. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Homer.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Cervantes.
(d) Rimbau.

3. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?
(a) "Economy."
(b) "History."
(c) "Anthopology."
(d) "Simplicity."

4. When was the American Oriental Society founded?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1804.

5. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?
(a) M. H. Abrams.
(b) Charles Wilkins.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Edward William Lane.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

2. When did William Muir die?

3. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?

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

5. Who is cited in Chapter 3 as having said, "... truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are" (203)?

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