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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. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1862.

2. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?
(a) "Anthropologists."
(b) "Philanthropists."
(c) "Philological scholars."
(d) "Biblical scholars."

3. Who wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Homer.

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

5. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Athena.
(c) Agave.
(d) Antigone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

2. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

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

4. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

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)?

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