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

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

3. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1699.

4. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?
(a) Gerard de Nerval.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

5. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
(a) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.
(b) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.
(c) Nobility, certainty, revision, and expansion.
(d) Empathy, education, information, and expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?

2. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?

3. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

5. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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