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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 Gustave Flouberd die?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1890.

2. During what years did the Napoleonic expedition take place?
(a) 1698-1702.
(b) 1798-1801.
(c) 1759-1765.
(d) 1709-1711.

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

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

5. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) An Occidentalist.
(b) A philologist.
(c) An epidemiologist.
(d) A biologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

2. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?

3. Who coined the phrase "les bourgeois conquerants"?

4. 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)?

5. Who called the spiritual and intellectual project of the eighteenth century a reconstituted theology or "natural supernaturalism" (114)?

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