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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part I: Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1649.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1798.

2. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?
(a) Albert Beguin.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

4. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who translated the Koran into English in 1734?

2. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

3. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

4. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

5. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?

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