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

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

3. 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 positive doctrine."
(b) "A negative doctrine."
(c) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(d) "An anthropological endeavor."

4. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?
(a) Gustave Dugat.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Edgar Quinet.

5. 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) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave an encyclopedic description of Orientalism in La Renaissance Orientale between 1765 and 1850?

2. When did Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

3. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

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

5. 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)?

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