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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) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Lord Salisbury.

2. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Lord Salisbury.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

3. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 50,000 pounds.
(b) 20,000 pounds.
(c) 30,000 pounds.
(d) 100,000 pounds.

4. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

5. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Linguology.
(b) Epidemiology.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Philology.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

4. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

5. 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)?

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