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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 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) Henri Baudet.
(c) The Duc de Broglie.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

2. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

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

4. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?
(a) Elucite.
(b) Epidemilogical.
(c) Epistemological.
(d) Ephemeral.

5. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Friedrich August Wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote History of the Saracens?

2. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?

3. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

5. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?

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