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

2. When did the Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1895.

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

4. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?
(a) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?

2. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

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

4. Who wrote The Bacchae?

5. 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)?

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