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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part IV: Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "A booming economy."
(b) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(c) "A global participant and power."
(d) "A subordinate class."

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

3. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Charles Wilkins.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?

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

3. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

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