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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. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) A new idea.
(b) An accepted idea.
(c) A revised idea.
(d) An unaccepted idea.

2. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1823.

3. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1568-1599.
(b) 1601-1635.
(c) 1702-1715.
(d) 1638-1639.

4. 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) Nietzsche.
(b) Baudilaire.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Schwab.

5. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 20,000 pounds.
(b) 100,000 pounds.
(c) 30,000 pounds.
(d) 50,000 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

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

3. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

4. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

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