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 Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1829.

2. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

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

4. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1859.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

2. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

3. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?

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

5. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?

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