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

2. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall.

3. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall.

4. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

5. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1859.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?

2. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

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

4. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

5. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?

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