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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 Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Johann Gottfried Herders.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

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

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

4. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1740.
(c) 1760.
(d) 1795.

5. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?
(a) Astute.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Quixotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

2. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?

3. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

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

5. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

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