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 the Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1789.

2. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?
(a) 1892-1899.
(b) 1847-1848.
(c) 1795-1800.
(d) 1856-1860.

3. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Edward Gibbon.

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

5. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Agave.
(d) Dionysus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?

2. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?

3. When was Louis Lambert published?

4. When did Silvestre de Sacy write Principes de Grammaire Generale?

5. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

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