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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part IV: Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1823.

2. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Homer.

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

4. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?
(a) 1795-1800.
(b) 1847-1848.
(c) 1892-1899.
(d) 1856-1860.

5. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
(a) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.
(b) Nobility, certainty, revision, and expansion.
(c) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.
(d) Empathy, education, information, and expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?

2. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?

3. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?

4. 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)?

5. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

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