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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 the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1889.

2. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?
(a) 1655.
(b) 1708.
(c) 1719.
(d) 1496.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

2. Who is cited as having said in 1881, "When you have got a ... faithful ally who is bent on meddling in a country in which you are deeply interested--you have three courses open to you" (41)?

3. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?

4. 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)?

5. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?

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