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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) 1800.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1798.

2. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Andrew Rothstein.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Richard Nixon.

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henri Baudet.

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

5. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1799-1805.
(b) 1858-1861.
(c) 1889-1900.
(d) 1902-1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Iliad?

2. When did Gustave Flouberd die?

3. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?

4. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

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

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