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

2. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Homer.
(d) Socrates.

3. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1972.

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

5. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. 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)?

3. Who is cited in Lord Cromer's book Modern Egypt as having said "Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental Mind" (38)?

4. 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)?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

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