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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part III: Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1829.

2. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?
(a) 1856-1860.
(b) 1892-1899.
(c) 1847-1848.
(d) 1795-1800.

3. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Cervantes.
(c) Rimbau.
(d) Aristophanes.

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

5. Silvestre de Sacy's family were adherents to what Catholic theological movement?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Jansenism.
(d) Othodoxism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?

2. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

3. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?

4. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?

5. When was Reinhart Dozy's Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne jusqu'a .la Conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides published?

(see the answer key)

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