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

2. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1823.

3. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(c) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.

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

5. When was William Muir's The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall published?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1800.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Iliad?

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

3. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

4. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?

5. When was Louis Lambert published?

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