This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part II: Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

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) Agave.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Zeus.

3. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1899.

4. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?
(a) 1312.
(b) 1402.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1449.

5. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) September, 1908.
(b) April, 1901.
(c) January, 1908.
(d) March, 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

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

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

4. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

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