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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 Second Boer War begin?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1895.

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

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

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

5. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Philology.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Linguology.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first volume of History of the Saracens appear?

2. How much money was Lord Cromer given on July 30, 1907 as a retirement prize for what he had done in Egypt?

3. Who wrote Bibliotheque Orientale?

4. 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)?

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

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