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

2. 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?
(a) 95%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 65%.

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

4. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Lord Salisbury.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

4. When did the Second Boer War begin?

5. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

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