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 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) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Sir Alfred Lyall.
(d) Lord Salisbury.

2. 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) 1402.
(b) 1449.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1312.

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

4. 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) 85%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 95%.

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

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 Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

3. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

4. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

5. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

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