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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. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Agave.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Zeus.

2. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Andrew Rothstein.

3. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Homer.

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

5. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1823.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Iliad?

2. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?

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

4. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?

5. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

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