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

2. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1804.

3. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1822.

4. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?
(a) "Hegire."
(b) "Ganymed."
(c) "Prometheus."
(d) "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."

5. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?

2. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?

3. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

4. What word from Chapter 2 means capricious or impulsive?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

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