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

2. When did William Muir die?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1905.

3. Who wrote Les Filles du Feau?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Gerard de Nerval.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

4. Who wrote the novel Tancred?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Benjamin Disraeli.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

5. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

2. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

3. 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)?

4. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?

5. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?

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