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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part II: Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philogical Laboratory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Louis Lambert published?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1865.

2. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1865.

3. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

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. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?

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

5. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

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