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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Homer.

3. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

4. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) An accepted idea.
(b) An unaccepted idea.
(c) A revised idea.
(d) A new idea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

2. 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)?

3. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

4. Who wrote Don Quixote?

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

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