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

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

3. 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)?
(a) Baudilaire.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Schwab.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?

2. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?

3. Who wrote the Iliad?

4. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

5. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

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