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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. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1808.

2. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

3. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1665.

4. 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) 1449.
(b) 1402.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1312.

5. Who "saw in Oriental polytheism a preparation of the way for Judeo-Christian monotheism," according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Friedrich Schelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Hayter Report appear?

2. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?

3. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

4. Who wrote The Bacchae?

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

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