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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Orientalist Structures and Restructures, Part I: Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was the American Oriental Society founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1823.

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

5. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1868.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did the Hayter Report appear?

4. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?

5. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?

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