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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) 900-800 BC.
(b) 559-500 BC.
(c) 898-760 BC.
(d) 760-710 BC.

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

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

4. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. When was the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Society founded?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1804.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

2. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?

3. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

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

5. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

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