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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1659.
(c) 1731.
(d) 1795.

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

3. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Schwab.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Baudilaire.
(d) Michelet.

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

5. 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)?
(a) 1312.
(b) 1449.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1402.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

2. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

4. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

5. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

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