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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 Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1808.

2. How old was Silvestre de Sacy when he replaced Dacier as secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions?
(a) 78.
(b) 75.
(c) 59.
(d) 65.

3. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
(a) 1816.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1902.

4. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?
(a) 1655.
(b) 1708.
(c) 1496.
(d) 1719.

5. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1798.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

2. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

3. 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)?

4. 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)?

5. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

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