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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 said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Schwab.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Baudilaire.

2. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Lord Salisbury.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

3. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Henri Baudet.

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

5. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Heritage.
(c) Subordinate.
(d) Tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?

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)?

3. When did the Hayter Report appear?

4. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?

5. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

(see the answer key)

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