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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. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1815.

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

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

4. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?
(a) 1693.
(b) 1757.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1789.

5. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?

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

3. When was Louis Lambert published?

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

5. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?

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