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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 wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?
(a) Johann Gottfried Herders.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Edward William Lane.

2. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Anwar Abdel Malek.

3. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

4. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 898-760 BC.
(b) 760-710 BC.
(c) 900-800 BC.
(d) 559-500 BC.

5. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?

2. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?

3. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?

4. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?

5. Who wrote the novel Tancred?

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