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

2. When was the American Oriental Society founded?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1789.

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

4. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Andrew Rothstein.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Richard Nixon.

5. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Homer.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Bacchae?

2. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?

3. Who wrote Don Quixote?

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 "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

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