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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 did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1496.
(c) 1655.
(d) 1719.

2. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Philology.
(c) Epidemiology.
(d) Linguology.

3. 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)?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Dionysus.

4. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Rimbau.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Cervantes.

5. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1792.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

2. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

3. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?

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

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

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