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

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

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Athena.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Agave.

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)?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Baudilaire.
(c) Schwab.
(d) Michelet.

5. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

2. When did Reinhart Dozy die?

3. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?

4. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?

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

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