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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 Hayter Report appear?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1955.

2. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1902.

3. When did Napoleon invade Egypt?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1649.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1798.

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

5. Who is Pentheus' mother that destroys him in The Bacchae?
(a) Athena.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Agave.
(d) Antigone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who referred to the "militant" Orient as "the Asiatic tidal wave" (75)?

3. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

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

5. Who wrote Le Genie des Religions?

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