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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. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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

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

4. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 900-800 BC.
(b) 559-500 BC.
(c) 760-710 BC.
(d) 898-760 BC.

5. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Homer.
(d) Euripides.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the Iliad?

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

5. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

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