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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 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1659.
(c) 1731.
(d) 1795.

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

3. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Linguology.
(b) Philology.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Epidemiology.

4. When was Uber die Sprache und Weishelt der Indier published?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1823.

5. 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 booming economy."
(c) "A subordinate class."
(d) "A global participant and power."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?

5. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

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