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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 did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1571.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1601.
(d) 1592.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2, "The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and" what (130)?

4. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?

5. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

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