This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part IV: Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the painter Ludovic Lepic comment "L'Orient est mort au Caire" (170)?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1884.

2. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Baudilaire.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Schwab.

3. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?
(a) President de Brosses.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

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

5. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?

3. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?

4. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?

5. When did the Second Boer War begin?

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