4. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Joseph McCarthy.
(b) Andrew Rothstein.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?

2. When did the Second Boer War begin?

3. Who wrote The Bacchae?

4. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?

5. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two traits that the author describes Orientalism carrying forward from the outset in Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis?

2. Who was George Sale and what contribution did he make to Orientalism?

3. What is the difference between the processes and ideas of Silvestre de Sacy and those of Ernest Renan?

4. What was Ernest Renan's background and education?

5. Who was Ferdinand de Lesseps and how did he contribute to Orientalism?

6. Why was Egypt considered a valuable land to rule over to the Europeans?

7. What role did Julius Mohl play in the development of Orientalism?

8. What was The Citizen of the World and who was its author?

9. How did the emergence of Occidentalism affect Orientalism?

10. Who are Bouvard and Pecuchet?

(see the answer keys)

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