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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 is the author of L'Ame Romantique et le Reve?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Albert Beguin.

2. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) A biologist.
(b) A philologist.
(c) An epidemiologist.
(d) An Occidentalist.

3. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 30,000 pounds.
(b) 20,000 pounds.
(c) 100,000 pounds.
(d) 50,000 pounds.

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

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

2. When did the Second Boer War begin?

3. 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)?

4. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

5. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

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