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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 did Reinhart Dozy die?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1896.

2. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?
(a) An instrument of destruction.
(b) An instrument toward global power.
(c) A political instrument.
(d) An economic instrument.

3. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

4. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Friedrich Schelling.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?
(a) "Biblical scholars."
(b) "Anthropologists."
(c) "Philanthropists."
(d) "Philological scholars."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

2. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?

5. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?

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