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

2. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Agave.
(d) Zeus.

3. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

4. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?
(a) September 2, 1908.
(b) March 12, 1919.
(c) June 13, 1910.
(d) April 25, 1901.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

4. When was the American Oriental Society founded?

5. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

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