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

2. 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.

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

4. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1889.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote the Iliad?

3. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

4. Approximately when was the Iliad written?

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

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