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 Voyage en Orient?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Gerard de Nerval.

2. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1830.

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Agave.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Athena.
(d) Cassandra.

4. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?
(a) 1693.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1757.

5. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1804.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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?

3. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?

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

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

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