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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 the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1804.

2. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

3. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Albert Beguin.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

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

5. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 900-800 BC.
(b) 760-710 BC.
(c) 559-500 BC.
(d) 898-760 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Second Boer War begin?

2. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

3. 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)?

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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

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