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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. Who wrote The Citizen of the World?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Oliver Goldsmith.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Edward William Lane.

2. When was the first installment of The Citizen of the World published?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1760.
(d) 1740.

3. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1496.
(c) 1719.
(d) 1655.

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)?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) The Duc de Broglie.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1812.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Don Quixote?

2. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

3. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

4. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?

5. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

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