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

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

3. Who wrote History of the Saracens?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

4. 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)?
(a) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(b) "A subordinate class."
(c) "A global participant and power."
(d) "A booming economy."

5. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1862.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

2. Who wrote Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier?

3. Who is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?

4. Who wrote The Bacchae?

5. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

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