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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 notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) A biologist.
(b) An epidemiologist.
(c) A philologist.
(d) An Occidentalist.

2. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rimbau.

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

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

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ernest Renan born?

2. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?

3. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

5. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

(see the answer key)

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