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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. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 559-500 BC.
(b) 760-710 BC.
(c) 898-760 BC.
(d) 900-800 BC.

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

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

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

5. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Homer.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

2. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

3. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

4. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

5. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

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