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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 was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

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

3. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Homer.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Aeschylus.

4. 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) Schwab.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

3. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

4. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?

5. When did Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?

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