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

2. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1845.

3. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1882.

4. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) M. H. Abrams.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ernest Renan born?

2. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

3. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

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

5. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

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