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

2. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1659.
(c) 1731.
(d) 1795.

3. 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) Julius Mohl.
(b) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1649.

5. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Homer.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rimbau.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote Don Quixote?

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

4. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

5. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

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