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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part IV: Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

2. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1699.

3. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gerard de Nerval.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

4. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?
(a) Palmyrian epigraphy.
(b) Russian history.
(c) Sanskrit philology.
(d) Syrian philosophy.

5. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1789.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

3. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

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

5. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?

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