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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 Le Genie des Religions?
(a) Gaston Bachelard.
(b) Edgar Quinet.
(c) Julius Mohl.
(d) Henri Baudet.

2. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?
(a) "A subordinate class."
(b) "An enlarged cosmopolitanism."
(c) "A global participant and power."
(d) "A booming economy."

3. When was Volney's Considerations sur la Guerre Actuel de Turcs written?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1788.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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 Arthur James Balfour lecture the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt" (31)?

4. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?

5. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

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