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

2. Who is most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.

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

4. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1742.

5. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Baudilaire.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Schwab.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?

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

3. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

4. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?

5. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?

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