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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part I: Latent and Manifest Orientalism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Edward Gibbon.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?
(a) Honore de Balzac.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Julius Mohl.

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

5. 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)?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) The Duc de Broglie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

2. When was Ernest Renan born?

3. When was L'Avenir de la Science published?

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

5. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?

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