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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 term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Linguology.
(d) Philology.

2. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(b) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.

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

4. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 50,000 pounds.
(b) 20,000 pounds.
(c) 100,000 pounds.
(d) 30,000 pounds.

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 wrote the Iliad?

2. 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)?

3. 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)?

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

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

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