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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. 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)?
(a) "Epistolism."
(b) "Accumulation."
(c) "Generosity."
(d) "Sovereignty."

2. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1798.

3. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

4. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Oliver Goldsmith.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Edward William Lane.

5. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?
(a) Honore de Balzac.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

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

3. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

4. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

5. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?

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