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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 is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Lord Salisbury.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall.

2. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Revision."
(b) "Subjectivism."
(c) "Continuity."
(d) "Advancement."

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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

5. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

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

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

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

5. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

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