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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

2. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?
(a) "Advancement."
(b) "Continuity."
(c) "Subjectivism."
(d) "Revision."

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

4. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1823.

5. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Charles Wilkins.
(c) Oliver Goldsmith.
(d) Edward William Lane.

6. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Linguology.
(c) Philology.
(d) Anthropology.

7. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?
(a) 1760.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1740.

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

9. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1712.
(d) 1756.

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

11. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?
(a) Edward William Lane.
(b) Charles Wilkins.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) M. H. Abrams.

12. 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) "Generosity."
(b) "Epistolism."
(c) "Sovereignty."
(d) "Accumulation."

13. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

14. 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) Madame Bovary.
(b) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(c) Bouvard et Pecuchet.
(d) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.

15. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

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