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

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

3. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) March 12, 1919.
(b) September 2, 1908.
(c) April 25, 1901.
(d) June 13, 1910.

4. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Homer.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Euripides.

5. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Edward Gibbon.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?

2. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?

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

4. 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)?

5. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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