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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 Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Plato.
(c) Homer.
(d) Socrates.

2. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Julius Mohl.
(c) Edward Gibbon.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

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

4. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(b) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.
(d) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.

5. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Raymond Schwab.
(c) Gerard de Nerval.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

2. Who wrote Don Quixote?

3. 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)?

4. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

5. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

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