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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 cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(b) Lord Salisbury.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

2. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.

3. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Rimbau.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Homer.

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

5. 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)?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(c) Sir William Jones.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

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

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

4. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

5. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

(see the answer key)

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