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

2. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

4. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Lord Salisbury.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

5. 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) 1312.
(b) 1195.
(c) 1449.
(d) 1402.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

2. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

3. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

4. When did the Hayter Report appear?

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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