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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. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

2. When was Louis Lambert published?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1849.

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

4. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. To whom is the letter from T. E. Lawrence written in 1918 that is cited in Chapter 3?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) E. M. Forster.

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. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

4. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?

5. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

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