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. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "A global participant and power."
(b) "A booming economy."
(c) "A subordinate class."
(d) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."

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

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "I am interested in showing how modern Orientalism, unlike precolonial awareness of Dante and d'Herbelot, embodies a systematic discipline of" what (123)?
(a) "Epistolism."
(b) "Accumulation."
(c) "Sovereignty."
(d) "Generosity."

4. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1875.

5. Who wrote Les Filles du Feau?
(a) Gerard de Nerval.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Sir William Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?

2. Who wrote Candide?

3. When did the Second Boer War begin?

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

5. When did Lamartine begin his trip to the Orient?

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