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

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) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

3. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Friedrich Schlegel.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

4. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Gerard de Nerval.

5. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1808.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

2. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

3. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

4. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

5. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

(see the answer key)

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