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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 the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1802.

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

3. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1659.
(c) 1708.
(d) 1731.

4. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?
(a) 75.
(b) 78.
(c) 65.
(d) 59.

5. 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)?
(a) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(b) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(c) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.
(d) Madame Bovary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

4. 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)?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

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