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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. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron.

2. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Edward Gibbon.
(c) Friedrich Schlegel.
(d) Julius Mohl.

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

4. 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) 1795-1800.
(b) 1847-1848.
(c) 1856-1860.
(d) 1892-1899.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

2. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

3. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

4. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

5. Of whom does the author say, "In article after article he returned with increasing conviction to the idea that even in destroying Asia, Britain was making possible there are a real social revolution" (153)?

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