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

2. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Andrew Rothstein.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Joseph McCarthy.

3. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?
(a) Lord Salisbury.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

4. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1889.

5. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Linguology.
(c) Epidemiology.
(d) Philology.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Second Boer War begin?

2. Who wrote The Bacchae?

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

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

5. When did the Hayter Report appear?

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