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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 is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Athena.
(c) Agave.
(d) Antigone.

2. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?
(a) Raymond Schwab.
(b) Gustave Dugat.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

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

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) "A global participant and power."
(b) "A booming economy."
(c) "A subordinate class."
(d) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Iliad?

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

3. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

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

5. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?

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