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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part I: Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) George Sale.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

2. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Astute.
(d) Quixotic.

3. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

4. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) M. H. Abrams.
(d) Edward William Lane.

5. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?
(a) "A positive doctrine."
(b) "An anthropological endeavor."
(c) "A negative doctrine."
(d) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

3. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

4. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

5. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

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