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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 wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) President de Brosses.
(c) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Edward William Lane.

2. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1858-1861.
(b) 1902-1905.
(c) 1799-1805.
(d) 1889-1900.

3. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?
(a) Edward Gibbon.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henri Baudet.

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

5. What is William Muir cited as saying "are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known" (151)?
(a) "The establishment of Israel."
(b) "The Nazi regime."
(c) "The sword of Muhammed, and the Koran."
(d) "The impending immigration of masses."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

2. 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)?

3. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?

4. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?

5. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

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