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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 the Societe Asiatique founded?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1829.

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

3. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1876.

4. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1649.

5. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

2. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

3. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

4. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?

5. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

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