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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 Silvestre de Sacy born?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1693.

2. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

3. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1972.

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

5. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?
(a) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(b) Madame Bovary.
(c) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(d) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

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

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?

4. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

5. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?

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