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

2. When was Ernest Renan born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1802.

3. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

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

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

Short Answer 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)?

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

3. Who wrote the Iliad?

4. Over what years were the volumes of William Muir's Life of Mahomet published?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?

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