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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 History of the Saracens?
(a) Simon Ockley.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Henri Baudet.
(d) Julius Mohl.

2. During what years did a group of Japanese Christians throw out the Portuguese from the area?
(a) 1638-1639.
(b) 1702-1715.
(c) 1568-1599.
(d) 1601-1635.

3. Who wrote The Persians, which is the earliest Athenian play extant?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Homer.

4. What character from The Bacchae does the author describe as "explicitly connected with his Asian origins and with the strangely threatening excesses of Oriental mysteries" (56)?
(a) Agave.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Agamemnon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who said that "the Orient advances, invincible, fatal to the gods of light by the charm of its dreams, by the magic of its chiaroscuro" (73)?

3. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?

4. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

5. When did the British occupation of Egypt begin during the Anglo-Egyptian War?

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