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

2. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?
(a) 1698.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1804.

3. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

4. Who is the author of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Edward William Lane.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?

2. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

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

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?

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

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