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

2. When did Reinhart Dozy die?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1903.

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)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Agave.

4. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

5. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Homer.
(b) Rimbau.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Cervantes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

2. Who wrote Don Quixote?

3. What is William Muir cited as saying "are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known" (151)?

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?

5. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

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