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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 Cuvier publish Le Regne Animal?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1902.

2. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Anwar Abdel Malek.

3. What did Caussin de Perceval theorize Islam essentially was as opposed to a spiritual instrument?
(a) An economic instrument.
(b) An instrument toward global power.
(c) An instrument of destruction.
(d) A political instrument.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was L'Avenir de la Science written?

3. Who wrote Candide?

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)?

5. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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