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

2. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Homer.
(d) Socrates.

3. Silvestre de Sacy's family were adherents to what Catholic theological movement?
(a) Jansenism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Othodoxism.
(d) Expressionism.

4. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(b) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(d) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?

2. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

3. When was The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published?

4. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

5. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

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