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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 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)?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1789.

2. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1948.

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

4. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?
(a) 1902-1905.
(b) 1858-1861.
(c) 1799-1805.
(d) 1889-1900.

5. 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) Baudilaire.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Schwab.
(d) Michelet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

2. Who wrote History of the Saracens?

3. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

4. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?

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

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