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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part II: Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Sir Alfred Lyall.

2. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1972.

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. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1649.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1776.

5. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) March 12, 1919.
(b) April 25, 1901.
(c) September 2, 1908.
(d) June 13, 1910.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

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

3. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

4. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

5. 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)?

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