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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. Approximately when was the Iliad written?
(a) 760-710 BC.
(b) 559-500 BC.
(c) 898-760 BC.
(d) 900-800 BC.

2. Who "were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit," according to the author in Chapter 1 (51)?
(a) Sir Alfred Lyall and Edgar Quinet.
(b) Lord Salisbury and Sir Alfred Lyall.
(c) Sir William Jones and Lord Salisbury.
(d) Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones.

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

4. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Edward Gibbon.
(d) Henri Baudet.

5. 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) "An anti-Semitic rhetoric."
(c) "An anthropological endeavor."
(d) "A positive doctrine."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Royal Asiatic Society founded?

2. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

3. When did the Second Boer War begin?

4. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

5. 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)?

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