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

2. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1699.
(d) 1815.

3. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) January, 1908.
(b) September, 1908.
(c) March, 1919.
(d) April, 1901.

4. 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) 65%.
(b) 95%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 75%.

5. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

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

3. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

4. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?

5. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

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