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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part II: Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philogical Laboratory.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1804.

3. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 50,000 pounds.
(b) 30,000 pounds.
(c) 100,000 pounds.
(d) 20,000 pounds.

4. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Andrew Rothstein.
(b) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Richard Nixon.

5. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1830.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

2. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?

3. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

4. 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)?

5. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

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