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

2. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?
(a) 85%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 95%.

3. When was Louis Lambert published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1832.

4. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Linguology.
(b) Epidemiology.
(c) Philology.
(d) Anthropology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the German word "Einfuhlung" translate to in English?

2. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?

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

4. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?

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

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