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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 referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?
(a) Anquetil-Duperron.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

3. 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.

4. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Lord Salisbury.

5. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1496.
(c) 1655.
(d) 1719.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Second Boer War begin?

2. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

3. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

4. Who wrote Voyage en Orient?

5. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

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