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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. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 559-500 BC.
(b) 900-800 BC.
(c) 760-710 BC.
(d) 898-760 BC.

2. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
(a) Vernacular.
(b) Idiosyncrasy.
(c) Topos.
(d) Grate.

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

4. Who rote The Romantic Agony?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Mario Praz.
(d) Sir William Jones.

5. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1812.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?

2. Silvestre de Sacy's family were adherents to what Catholic theological movement?

3. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

4. Who wrote the novel Tancred?

5. When did William Muir die?

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