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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. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1568-1599.
(b) 1638-1639.
(c) 1601-1635.
(d) 1702-1715.

2. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Edward Gibbon.
(d) Friedrich Schlegel.

3. 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) Schwab.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Baudilaire.

4. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1798.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Iliad?

2. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

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

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

5. When was Reinhard Dozy born?

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