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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. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Homer.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Plato.

2. Who wrote Don Quixote?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Rimbau.
(d) Voltaire.

3. When was the American Oriental Society founded?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1789.

4. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1901.

5. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) A philologist.
(b) A biologist.
(c) An epidemiologist.
(d) An Occidentalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

2. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

3. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

4. When was the Societe Asiatique founded?

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

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