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

2. 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) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Julius Mohl.

3. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1792.

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

5. Who wrote Candide?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Rimbau.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Don Quixote?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

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