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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. 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) "A global participant and power."
(b) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(c) "A subordinate class."
(d) "A booming economy."

2. Who stated that "Despite the distraction of a great many vague desires, impulses, and images, the mind seems persistenly to formulate ... a science of the concrete" (53)?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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

4. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. 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) 1402.
(b) 1312.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1449.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?

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

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

4. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

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

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