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

2. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1649.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1798.

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

4. 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) 1449.
(b) 1312.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1402.

5. 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) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Lord Salisbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?

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

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

4. When did the Second Boer War begin?

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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