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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. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1789.

2. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Athena.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Agave.

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

4. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?
(a) 1195.
(b) 1312.
(c) 1402.
(d) 1449.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

2. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

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

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)?

5. Who wrote Don Quixote?

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