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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 William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1709.

2. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?
(a) 1712.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1823.

3. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) An accepted idea.
(b) A revised idea.
(c) A new idea.
(d) An unaccepted idea.

4. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 559-500 BC.
(b) 898-760 BC.
(c) 900-800 BC.
(d) 760-710 BC.

5. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?
(a) An instrument of destruction.
(b) An instrument toward global power.
(c) An economic instrument.
(d) A political instrument.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

2. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?

3. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

4. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

5. 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)?

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