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

2. 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) Dionysus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Agave.

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

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

5. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Plato.
(b) Homer.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Socrates.

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 did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

3. 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)?

4. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

5. Silvestre de Sacy's family were adherents to what Catholic theological movement?

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