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

2. The author asserts in Chapter 1, "Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is simply as" what (42)?
(a) "A negative doctrine."
(b) "An anthropological endeavor."
(c) "A positive doctrine."
(d) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."

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

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

5. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1649.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1776.

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 wrote the Iliad?

3. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

4. When did the Second Boer War begin?

5. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?

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