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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Advancement."
(b) "Subjectivism."
(c) "Revision."
(d) "Continuity."

2. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?
(a) V. W. Richards.
(b) Henry Huxley.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) E. M. Forster.

3. Who is most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Simon Ockley.

4. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) George Sale.
(d) Edward William Lane.

5. Who wrote The Legacy of Islam?
(a) Eduard Sachau.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Sir Hamilton Gibb.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Morroe Berger publish a report "Middle Eastern and North African Studies: Developments and Needs"?

2. Who wrote the Iliad?

3. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

4. The course guide for Columbia College undergraduate in what year was said to stated that every other word in the language had to do with violence (287)?

5. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?

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