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

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

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

4. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

2. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?

3. When did William Muir die?

4. When was the Institut de France "commissioned by Napoleon to form a tableau generale on the state and progress of the arts and sciences since 1789" (126)?

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

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