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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. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?
(a) 1709-1711.
(b) 1798-1801.
(c) 1759-1765.
(d) 1698-1702.

2. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?
(a) "Biblical scholars."
(b) "Philanthropists."
(c) "Philological scholars."
(d) "Anthropologists."

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

4. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?
(a) The Duc de Broglie.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

2. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

3. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?

4. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?

5. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?

(see the answer key)

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