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

2. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

3. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) An Occidentalist.
(b) A biologist.
(c) An epidemiologist.
(d) A philologist.

4. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?
(a) 1709-1711.
(b) 1759-1765.
(c) 1698-1702.
(d) 1798-1801.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

2. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

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