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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 gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

3. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) April, 1901.
(b) September, 1908.
(c) March, 1919.
(d) January, 1908.

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

5. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Henri Baudet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?

2. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?

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

4. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

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