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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 William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1709.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1665.

2. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(d) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.

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

4. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

5. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?
(a) Expansion, historical confrontation, sympathy, and classification.
(b) Empathy, education, information, and expression.
(c) Suppresion, policy, reinvention, and institutionalism.
(d) Nobility, certainty, revision, and expansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

2. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

3. Who coined the phrase "les bourgeois conquerants"?

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

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?

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