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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. 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) 1802.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1789.

2. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Homer.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

3. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1638-1639.
(b) 1702-1715.
(c) 1601-1635.
(d) 1568-1599.

4. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1816.

5. Who coined the phrase "les bourgeois conquerants"?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) Charles Wilkins.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Charles Moraze.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

3. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

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?

5. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?

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