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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part I: Latent and Manifest Orientalism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) The Duc de Broglie.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?
(a) 59.
(b) 78.
(c) 65.
(d) 75.

3. Who is most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

4. When was Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1799.

5. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1568-1599.
(b) 1601-1635.
(c) 1702-1715.
(d) 1638-1639.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Les Lois Psychologiques d l'Evolution des Peuples?

2. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

3. What term from the book means relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope?

4. 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)?

5. Over what period of time was Leopold von Ranke's Weltgeschichte published?

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