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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part II: Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philogical Laboratory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(b) "An anthropological endeavor."
(c) "A positive doctrine."
(d) "A negative doctrine."

2. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1709.

3. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1859.

4. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Quixotic.
(c) Astute.
(d) Articulate.

5. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Anwar Abdel Malek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

2. When was Louis Lambert published?

3. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?

4. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

5. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?

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