1. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?
(a) 50,000 pounds.
(b) 20,000 pounds.
(c) 30,000 pounds.
(d) 100,000 pounds.

2. When did the Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1972.

3. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Julius Mohl.

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

5. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1601.
(c) 1592.
(d) 1571.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. When did the Second Boer War begin?

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

4. Who wrote the Iliad?

5. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?

(see the answer key)

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