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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. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Charles Wilkins.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. 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.

3. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?
(a) Joseph McCarthy.
(b) Andrew Rothstein.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Richard Nixon.

4. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1875.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?

2. When did the Second Boer War begin?

3. When did the Hayter Report appear?

4. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?

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

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