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

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

3. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1649.

4. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Lord Salisbury.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

3. 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)?

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

5. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

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