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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Schwab.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Baudilaire.

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) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

3. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1876.

4. 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)?
(a) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(b) "An anthropological endeavor."
(c) "A negative doctrine."
(d) "A positive doctrine."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

2. When did the Second Boer War begin?

3. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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

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