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

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

3. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Plato.
(c) Homer.
(d) Socrates.

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)?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Gustave Dugat.
(d) Gaston Bachelard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

2. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

3. 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?

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

5. 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)?

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