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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. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Andrew Rothstein.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Joseph McCarthy.

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

3. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1699.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1815.

4. 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) Baudilaire.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Schwab.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote History of the Saracens?

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

3. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

4. 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)?

5. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

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