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

2. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Edward Gibbon.
(d) Julius Mohl.

3. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Homer.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

4. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

5. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Agave.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

3. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

4. Who wrote the Iliad?

5. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

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