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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 asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

2. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "A booming economy."
(b) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(c) "A global participant and power."
(d) "A subordinate class."

3. 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)?
(a) 1195.
(b) 1402.
(c) 1312.
(d) 1449.

4. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Edward William Lane.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

2. Who wrote History of the Saracens?

3. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

5. 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)?

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