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

2. 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) Edgar Quinet.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

3. 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)?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Agave.
(d) Zeus.

4. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(b) "A subordinate class."
(c) "A global participant and power."
(d) "A booming economy."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

3. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?

4. Who wrote The Bacchae?

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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