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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 "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(d) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.

2. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

4. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1693.

5. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1845.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was L'Avenir de la Science published?

2. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

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

4. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?

5. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

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