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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism, Part III: Projects.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter 1, "By and large, until the mid-eighteenth century Orientalists were" what (51)?
(a) "Anthropologists."
(b) "Biblical scholars."
(c) "Philological scholars."
(d) "Philanthropists."

3. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henri Baudet.

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

5. 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?
(a) 85%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 95%.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Hayter Report appear?

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

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

4. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

5. Who wrote Historie des Orientalistes de 'Europe du XII au XIX?

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