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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 as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?
(a) Lord Salisbury.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

2. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) The Duc de Broglie.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Henri Baudet.

3. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
(a) Empathy, education, information, and expression.
(b) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.
(c) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.
(d) Nobility, certainty, revision, and expansion.

4. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?
(a) Albert Beguin.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. Who invented for himself the name of "stud. philol." in 1777 (131)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Friedrich August Wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

2. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

3. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

4. Who wrote History of the Saracens?

5. 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)?

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