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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 did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1854.

2. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Homer.

3. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1865.

4. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. Who is cited in Chapter 2 as having "said of Sacy's work that it reconciled the manner of a scientist with that of a Biblical teacher, and that Sacy was the one man able to reconcile 'the goals of Liebniz with the efforts of Bossuet'" (124)?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(c) The Duc de Broglie.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

2. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

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

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?

5. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

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