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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 was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?
(a) 1731.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1708.
(d) 1659.

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

3. 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) Edgar Quinet.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Gustave Dugat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

2. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?

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

4. Who was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society?

5. Who wrote History of the Saracens?

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