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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1789.

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

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

4. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?
(a) "Philological scholars."
(b) "Philanthropists."
(c) "Biblical scholars."
(d) "Anthropologists."

5. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?

2. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

3. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

4. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?

5. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

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